Tatiana Schlossberg, an American environmental journalist and the granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, has passed away from cancer at the age of 35, as communicated by her family on Tuesday.

“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. The family issued a statement to the effect of “She will always be part of us,” which was then posted on the Instagram account of the JFK Library Foundation.

Schlossberg, who was a science and climate reporter for The New York Times, opened up about her fight with acute myeloid leukemia in a piece for The New Yorker in November. The doctors came to know of the disease, which is very infrequent among younger patients, when they saw her having an unusually high white blood cell count after the birth of her second baby in May 2024.

“In the course of the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe,” she revealed. “My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me.”

Schlossberg did not shy away from pointing a finger at her relative Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who, presently, is the health secretary in the cabinet of President Trump and who was criticized for his controversial decisions regarding vaccine access and government medical research funding.

The author of the acclaimed book Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have, which won an award in 2019 and was published by The Atlantic and Vanity Fair, has been a frequent contributor to top-notch magazines.

The daughter of designer Edwin Schlossberg and diplomat Caroline Kennedy is dead. She is survived by her husband, Dr. George Moran, and their two children.

Schlossberg’s professional and intimate texts embodied her dedication to environmental reporting and, on the other hand, her struggle with illness, thus, she left an eternal imprint in the world of both media and family lineage through her historic bloodline.