MEET KENDALL
Kendall is a multi-platform storyteller and narrative strategist. She recently graduated from Harvard Divinity School where she received her Masters in Religion and Public Life, focused on the theology and spirituality of fear. Kendall is also the host and creator of United Bodies, an award-winning podcast in partnership with Ms. magazine about the lived experience of health. She is a sought-after health justice advocate and writer with opinion essays in The New York Times and CNN. From 2019-2024, Kendall was the Senior Executive Producer of Multimedia at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) where she hosted their national podcast, At Liberty,
Before the ACLU, Kendall worked as a reporter for The New York Times' Opinion section and Mic, where her work drove real-world impact: from securing clemency from then President Trump for Alice Marie Johnson, to prompting both the Biden and Trump administrations to make notable changes to the organ transplant distribution system, including breaking up the national organ monopoly.
Her health-oriented activism started early. At 11 years old, Kendall started Kids Caring 4 Kids, a non-profit to inspire and empower young people to help provide basic human needs for children impacted by HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Kids Caring 4 Kids went on to raise more than one million dollars by engaging over 15,000 young people to provide services to 10,000 people in four countries. She is also the co-founder of OWN IT, a women's leadership summit that spread to 12 college campuses.
Most prominently Kendall has appeared on The Oprah Show with President Clinton, the TODAY Show, and CBS This Morning. She was named the 2014 Glamour Magazine College Woman of the Year, a Chicagoan of the Year by Chicago Magazine, a Zeitgeist Young Mind by Google, and one of Youth Service America’s “Top 25 Most Powerful and Influential Young People,” among other distinctions.
In her free time, Kendall is an advisor to Organize, a non-profit working to fix the organ transplant system. She is a graduate of Georgetown University.