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Kennedy is an attorney, editor, writer and member of the New York and Washington, D.C. bars. She is one of the founders of the Profiles in Courage Award, given annually to a person who exemplifies the type of courage examined in her father's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name. The award is generally given to elected officials who, acting in accord with their conscience, risk their careers by pursuing a larger vision of the national, state or local interest in opposition to popular opinion or powerful pressures from their constituents. In May 2002, she presented an unprecedented Profiles in Courage Award to representatives of the NYPD, the New York City Fire Department, and the military as representatives of all of the people who acted to save the lives of others during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Kennedy is currently President of the Kennedy Library Foundation, a director of both the Commission on Presidential Debates and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Honorary Chairman of the American Ballet Theatre. She is also an adviser to the Harvard Institute of Politics, a living memorial to her father.

Kennedy has represented her family at the funeral services of former Presidents Ronald Reagan in 2004 and Gerald Ford in 2007, and at the funeral service of former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson in 2007. She also represented her family at the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock, Arkansas in November 2004. It was reported on December 5, 2008 that New York Governor David Paterson has discussed with Kennedy the possibility of her filling the US Senate seat currently occupied by Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton.

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After interning with her uncle U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, and at The New York Daily News, Caroline Kennedy began work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1980, where she met her future husband, the exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg.

Kennedy and Schlossberg were married on July 19, 1986 at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville, Massachusetts. Caroline's maid of honor was her cousin Maria Shriver. Caroline was walked down the aisle by her uncle Ted. Although she is often referred to as Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, she actually kept her birth name after her marriage.

Kennedy and her family live on Park Avenue in Manhattan. She and her husband have two daughters and one son: Rose Kennedy Schlossberg (born on June 25, 1988 in New York City; she is named after her maternal great-grandmother); Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg (born on May 5, 1990 in New York City; she is named after her father's former colleague, the lithographer Tatiana Grossman, and her father's grandmother); and John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg (born on January 19, 1993 in New York City; he is named after his maternal grandfather). She also owns her mother's 375-acre (1.52 km2) estate in Aquinnah (formerly Gay Head) on the Island of Martha's Vineyard known as Red Gate Farm.

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