Joe Kennedy III

A former Congressman, legal aid volunteer, and assistant district attorney, Joe Kennedy has dedicated his career to social and economic justice.

Joe is currently the President of Citizens Energy, a diversified renewable energy non-profit dedicated to supporting a just and equitable green energy transition. In addition to making clean energy more accessible and affordable, Citizens has donated over $600 million dollars in benefits to those in need across the United States, including in frontline and project host communities.

He is also the founder of Groundwork Project, a political advocacy organization dedicated to supporting local community organizing efforts in regions of the country historically under-resourced and disenfranchised.

Most recently, Joe was U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland for Economic Affairs for the Biden Administration, a key diplomatic post through which he focused on the long-standing U.S. commitment to peace, prosperity, and stability throughout the region.

Joe served as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts 4th congressional district from 2013-2021, where he focused on civil rights and economic justice. Before his election to Congress, he worked as an assistant district attorney in the Cape and Middlesex County offices and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Dominican Republic.

Joe was born in Boston and graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Law School. He currently serves on numerous non-profit boards, including the Woodwell Climate Research Center, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health. He is married to Lauren Birchfield Kennedy and they have two young children, Eleanor and James.