Published books
and honors
BOOKS AND HONORS:
• Author, "Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India" (Random House, April 2011),
a well-reviewed book of reportage about how caste, class, and marriage impact womens' lives in India. The Washington Post wrote, “Kennedy explores India’s growing pains as globalization clashes with centuries of tradition ...this tension comes alive in the stories of three women whom Kennedy befriends and chronicles.” It was a “Hot Read of the Week” at the Daily Beast, which said, “Sideways on a Scooter is as much a sharp social commentary as it is a compelling, humorous travel memoir.”
• Collaborator, "How’s Your Faith? An Unlikely Spiritual Journey" by David Gregory, (Simon & Schuster, September 2015).
Coauthor and journalistic collaborator.
• Editor, "Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition" (Houghton Mifflin, June 2015). Served as external editor for this book of narrative history by journalist Nisid Hajari.
• Advisory board member, Faith Angle Forum, Ethics and Public Policy Center (current).
• Adjunct professor, University of Maryland, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, Literature in Journalism (Spring 2013-current).
Instructor of a 400-level graduate and undergraduate class on long-form nonfiction, in which we read great journalism and grapple with journalistic practices and ethics, and with matters of voice and style.
• American University
Journalist-in-Residence, School of International Service (October 2014-August 2017).
As a voice for journalism ethics and best practices at the School of International Service at American University, I ran the Writing Fellows Program for graduate students in the International Communication Masters Program, and taught writing courses to graduate students.
• Media trainer, HardWired Global and Global Media Foundation, (January 2010-present). Provide trainings to journalists and leaders around the world focusing on strong media and democracy practices.
• International Reporting Project Reporting fellow, 2009 and 2015.
Granted travel fellowships to report on women in India in 2009, and religion in Ireland in 2015.