An American author, attorney, and diplomat, born in New York, United States to parents John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy. She served as the United States ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017. She was six years old when her father was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The following year, she moved with her mother to the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She later graduated from Radcliffe College in Massachusetts and worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, where she met her future husband, designer Edwin Schlossberg. She attended Columbia Law School to obtain a doctorate in law. She is also a speaker on her family's political legacy and co-author of two books on civil liberties. She appeared as herself in The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing (2006).