Ellen J. Kennedy

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Ellen J. Kennedy is an American academic who is the founder and executive director of World Without Genocide, a human rights organization headquartered at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, St. Paul, MN.

Kennedy promotes Holocaust, genocide, and human rights education in colleges, universities, faith-based organizations, and civic groups. She advocates with elected officials at city, state, national, and international levels on genocide prevention and human rights issues. Kennedy was a professor at the University of St. Thomas from 1987 to 2007 and served as the Interim Director for the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, from 2008 to 2010. She founded World Without Genocide with support from her students at the University of St. Thomas in 2006.^[1]

She has been an adjunct professor^[2] at Mitchell Hamline School of Law since 2006 where she teaches Genocide Prevention: A 21st Century Challenge and Transgender Identity: Rights and Challenges Locally and Globally.^[3] Kennedy is the representative of World Without Genocide to the United Nations Department of Global Communications since December 10, 2021.^[4]