Joe Kennedy

Joe Kennedy is a lifetime basketball player and coach. He is a 2007 graduate of Northwestern with a bachelor’s degree in education and social policy. As a four-year letterman on the Wildcats’ basketball team, he was named a team captain his senior season and received Academic All-Big Ten recognition three times.

After graduating, Kennedy was a special assistant for the Office of Public Engagement at the White House, where he served as a liaison to key national organizations that helped promote and implement the administration’s legislative priorities. He also built a coalition of sports organizations, including the NBA, WNBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS, PGA, USOC, and the NCAA, to promote the First Lady’s “Let’s Move!” campaign against childhood obesity, and coordinated and executed championship visits and other sporting events at the Obama White House.

Most recently, in September of 2022, Kennedy became the first Executive Director of The Team and in 2022, Director of the Engaged Athlete Fellowship. Coach Joe Kennedy is working towards a future where all student athletes and athletic departments establish civic engagement as a priority.