Tickets to Ms. Kennedy’s lecture are $5 for the general public and $3 for students and are available at the Central Ticket Office, located at the corner of Old Main Drive and Ring Road at the heart of the SUNY Fredonia campus, or by calling (716) 673-3501.
 
 
A graduate of Brown University and one of the most prolific independent documentarians in the United States, Ms. Kennedy is the co-founder and co-president of Moxie Firecracker Films and has spent her career focusing on such important social concerns as poverty, drug addiction, domestic abuse, human rights, AIDS and mental illness. Ms. Kennedy won an Emmy Award for her film "American Hollow," a documentary about an Appalachian family torn between tradition and modernity, and has seen her work featured on such popular television networks as HBO, MTV, A&E, Lifetime, The Oxygen Network, Court TV, TLC and the Public Broadcasting System. Other critically acclaimed films by Ms. Kennedy include "A Boy’s Life," "Fire In Our House" and "Different Moms."
 
Away from the camera, Ms. Kennedy served as a member of the 1999 Presidential Mission on AIDS in Africa, initiated and helped develop the Teacher Transfer Program between the United States and Namibia after work at the Dobra Resettlement Camp and has also been a member of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights delegations in South Africa, South Korea, Japan, El Salvador and Poland. She is a former chairperson and current board member of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation Associate Trustees Program, works with the Legal Action Center and the Project Return Foundation and was a speaker for the Women of Substance Education Outreach Campaign.
 
For more information about the "Pandemic: The AIDS Crisis" with Rory Kennedy, please contact Spectrum Entertainment Promotions Chair Jennifer Zaso at (585) 704-5905 or zaso0234@fredonia.edu. To learn more about programs and events at SUNY Fredonia, visit the university online at www.fredonia.edu.