Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an American environmental lawyer and author who began his career as a Manhattan assistant district attorney. In the mid-1980s he joined Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council, and after joining the New York bar in 1985 he became a senior attorney at Riverkeeper. He taught environmental law at Pace University School of Law from 1986 and started the school's environmental law clinic in 1987, supervising it for three decades. He founded the Waterkeeper Alliance in 1999 and led it until 2020, and in 1996 he helped negotiate the New York City Watershed Agreement. His books include The Riverkeepers (1997), Crimes Against Nature (2004) and The Real Anthony Fauci (2021), a New York Times bestseller. He was featured in the documentaries The Waterkeepers (2000) and Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable (2004) and appeared in Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (2008).