Vicki Strauss Kennedy
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Vicki Strauss Kennedy graduated from Wesleyan University and the University of Virginia School of Law. She taught literature at Harvard University for six years, and now serves as an educational consultant at Loyola Marymount University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Max, their three children and six dogs.

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Why I'm Backing Alan Khazei for the U.S. Senate

Posted December 5, 2009 | 11:05:42 (EST)

In 1988, I saw a sign for City Year in a store-front window in Cambridge. Later that afternoon I met Alan Khazei, and signed up as an early volunteer in this new service initiative. We have remained friends ever since. City Year flourished. Remarkably, 575,000 people have served as corps...

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Change My World

Posted October 24, 2008 | 16:38:58 (EST)

My desk window faces the lot behind my office. Each morning as I sit down to write, I watch the stream of the building's occupants make their way to their cars, many with children straggling behind them, weighted down with backpacks and posterboards and lunch boxes. My favorite morning view...
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