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ROBERT F. Annual Report 2018 Photo courtesy Clyde Keller. May be purchased at clydekellerphoto.com. 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW OUR VISION Our vision is to realize Robert Kennedy’s dream of a more just and peaceful world. In partnership with “To tame the local activists, we pursue strategic litigation on key human rights issues, educate millions of students savageness of man and others in inclusion and advocacy, and foster a and make gentle the social good approach to business and investment in order to bolster respect for human rights and life of the world.” social justice. In the United States and abroad, our programs focus on . ROBERT F. KENNEDY

OUR WORK The Robert F. Kennedy legacy Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called him “the most creative man in American public life.” Ronald Reagan said, “He aroused the comfortable. He exposed the corrupt, remembered the forgotten, inspired his countrymen, and renewed and enriched the American conscience.” We honor Robert F. Kennedy’s legacy by advancing social, economic and racial justice, and by introducing his life to new generations to inspire them to make a difference.

Advocacy & litigation Robert F. Kennedy believed that “those with the courage to enter moral conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the globe.” Our team of lawyers and issue experts collaborate with partners around the world to create lasting legal change. Through legal advocacy, we have freed political prisoners, defended the rule of law in autocratic regimes, addressed mass incarceration through bail reform and amplified the voices of human rights defenders in the United States and abroad.

Engaging the investment community Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights holds annual conferences to help decision-makers serving in public and corporate pension funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices fulfill their fiduciary duties and meet the challenges of investing. Our Compass Investor Conference series gathers over 150 institutional investors and asset managers who oversee more than $7 trillion in collective assets to discuss the role of long-term asset ownership and ways to deliver superior risk- adjusted returns while considering supply chain issues, diversity and inclusion, and, in the tech sector, protecting rights to privacy, access to untainted information and free expression.

Teaching human rights Our human rights education program, Speak Truth to Power (STTP), trains the next generation of human rights defenders through classroom education. We develop student lesson plans in collaboration with educators that bring the stories of human rights defenders to life. Students gain an understanding of pressing human rights issues, and build hands-on activism experience through activities that encourage direct engagement with decision-makers.

Inspiring young leaders Robert F. Kennedy called young people “the world’s hope.” We foster that optimism by convening young leaders committed to making a difference in their communities. These innovative, influential and philanthropic young adults host events and share ideas that result in new approaches to human rights advocacy. 1 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW

ROBERT F. KENNEDY LEGACY

50th anniversary We partnered with local schools and the In 2018, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis commemorated the 50th anniversaries of both Robert to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s announcement of his candidacy for the Kennedy’s campaign stop on the evening of Presidency and the start of the organization. Martin Luther King’s death. The two days of events featured , Rep. John Elected officials from both sides of the Lewis and Indiana senators and representatives aisle, historians, members of the diplomatic as well as local officials, teachers, students and community and guests gathered to pay the general public. Events kicked off with a tribute to Robert Kennedy in the Kennedy screening of “A Ripple of Hope”. The following Senate Caucus Room where he made his day, after meeting with students who had been announcement on March 16, 1968. studying the Speak Truth to Power curriculum, remarks were delivered in the park where 50 Throughout the year, Robert F. Kennedy Human years earlier, Robert Kennedy had broken the Rights worked with community organizations, news of King’s death to the assembled crowd. schools, public service leaders, museums, authors and filmmakers around the globe on collaborative “Mindless Menace of Violence” Anniversary events to connect past with present, engage new From Indianapolis, Robert F. Kennedy Human audiences and inspire young people to take action. Rights headed to Cleveland, where Kerry Kennedy addressed the attendees of a Honoring Bobby’s legacy through human luncheon sponsored by the Cleveland Club. It rights education was the 50th anniversary of Robert Kennedy’s In January, we partnered with the Cesar Chavez “Mindless Menace of Violence” speech, which Foundation and the Robert F. Kennedy Schools in he delivered to the club following King’s death. Los Angeles to bring the history of Chavez, Kennedy Engaging with a local clergyman and community and farmworkers’ rights to hundreds of area students leader, Kerry revisited the speech and attending the culturally diverse schools. Using connected her father’s work to the current social the story of Robert Kennedy and Cesar Chavez’s and political climate. She also gave examples friendship and their advocacy as the starting of how our work continues his legacy, offering point for the discussion, students tied the issues ideas and inspiration for the teachers, local the farmworkers and politicians confronted then leaders and students in the room. to contemporary themes and challenges.

2018 ANNUAL REPORT 2 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW Books and community events for RFK Over the course of 2018, Robert F. Kennedy Human Human Rights Award to youth movements Rights participated in or hosted book events, film On June 5th, we honored young activists with the screenings, school assemblies, museum exhibits, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. In keeping speaking engagements, tributes and awards to with Robert Kennedy’s belief that “youth are our commemorate Robert Kennedy and share information greatest natural resource” and that it “is young people about the work of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. who will take the lead,” the honorees represented Kerry Kennedy, Chris Matthews, Rick Allen and social movements addressing immigration, racial Ellen Meacham published books on his life, work and discrimination, gun violence and environmental justice. speeches, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s biography Robert Kennedy and His Times was re-issued.

President Clinton, Kenny Chesney We launched the Speak Truth to Power 50th remember RFK anniversary curriculum, pairing the stories Thousands gathered at Arlington National of change-makers throughout history with Cemetery on June 6 to share in a tribute of Robert their contemporary counterparts and showing Kennedy’s life through recollections, readings, students how they can make a difference. remarks and music. President Bill Clinton delivered the keynote remarks.Participants Supported by the Fund II Foundation, Robert F. spanned generations and included , Kennedy Human Rights digitized and catalogued public officials, non-profit leaders, advocates, thousands of documents and photos. former RFK Fellows, clergy and youth activists. With the annual awards given in Robert Kennedy’s Pope Francis celebrates mass for Bobby name, we continued our tradition of recognizing On June 7, Pope Francis offered mass for authors, journalists, business leaders, elected officials, Robert Kennedy and met members of the family, advocates, activists and public servants who dedicate expressing his admiration for Robert F. Kennedy their craft and resources to drawing attention to Human Rights’ work on social justice. injustice and bringing about social change.

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ADVOCACY AND LITIGATION

Garnered support for basic human rights Protected civic space • In September, we co-hosted a screening of • We achieved victories in both Africa and the documentary Hasta la Raíz on the fifth Latin America. In August, the UN Working anniversary of the Dominican Republic’s Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that our judgment 168/13, which retroactively stripped client Mohamed al-Bambary, a Sahrawi media hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of activist serving six years in prison as a result of Haitian descent of their Dominican citizenship his journalism, is being arbitrarily detained in overnight, leaving many in legal limbo. In Morocco, and called for his immediate release. October, we co-hosted the premiere of • In November, we joined the global conversation the documentary Struggle for Justice in on addressing shrinking civic space as we Venezuela: The Foro Penal Story, with the participated in an experts’ meeting on the Center for International Human Rights at John protection of civic space in Africa, hosted by Open Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. Society and Inform Action in Mombasa, .

Photo courtesy of HUMAN and Matthew Smith.

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Defended the right to nationality Advocated for indigenous rights in Mexico • We partnered with other NGOs to create • A delegation to Mexico, led by Kerry an advocacy manual on the right to Kennedy, met with local advocates, as nationality and combating statelessness in well as incoming members of the López the Dominican Republic, which featured our Obrador administration, bringing increased 2017 report Dreams Deferred. We co-hosted international attention to human rights a civil society workshop in the Bahamas, on issues facing the country, particularly the inter-American system of human rights, in underrepresented and indigenous featuring the president of the Inter-American communities in the state of Guerrero. Commission on Human Rights, Margarette May Macaulay, as the keynote speaker. Focused media attention on the border • At the height of the family separation crisis Held Venezuela accountable at the southern U.S. border, we launched the • As a result of our efforts, the UN Working #BreakBreadNotFamilies campaign and a Group on Arbitrary Detention found that chain fast with in support of our client José Vicente Garcia Ramirez civil society actors on the front lines in the Rio was arbitrarily detained in Venezuela and Grande Valley. In just two weeks, the campaign ordered the Venezuelan government to garnered national media attention while raising adopt the necessary measures to remedy his $36,000 to support frontline organizations. situation and bring it into conformity with the Actors Alec Baldwin, and Alfre relevant international standards. Woodard, supporters across the country and 48 members of the Kennedy family, including Won major grant , participated in the fast. • The National Endowment for Democracy awarded our litigation team funds to protect civic space and promote inter-regional Photo courtesy of Carolyn Van Houten, collaboration between African and Latin 2019 journalism award American human rights lawyers. winner – domestic photography Investigated Rohingya genocide • Our delegation of experts to Myanmar and Bangladesh secured a promise from Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina to continue cooperating with the International Criminal Court on its investigation into crimes against humanity and genocide against the Rohingya. Our high-level meetings with government officials, civil society organizations, community leaders, and survivors of mass atrocities opened lines of communication that later allowed advocacy victories, such as preventing 100,000 Rohingya from being moved to an unsafe island in the Bay of Bengal.

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

Mass Bail Out • Executed the largest bail out action that has In October 2018, we made history while ever occurred in a single city posting nearly $1.2 demonstrating that closing and million in bail to free 105 people in one month. ending money bail is indeed possible in New • Coordinated services and community-based York. The Mass Bail Out was supported by support for those released to meet key needs over 100 social justice organizations, and and set them up to successfully return to court through the coordinated efforts of thousands – initiatives that are models for alternatives to of volunteers, community groups, service pre-trial incarceration. providers, public defenders, faith communities • Mobilized broad support from public and formerly incarcerated people and their officials, celebrities, and activists in New York families, as well as public officials, influencers and across the United States, increasing and activists, the Mass Bail Out achieved the awareness and pressuring officials for the following: structural reforms needed to end wealth-based • Engaged over 1,200 New Yorkers to take detention and unjust pretrial incarceration. action in person and contribute resources to free their neighbors from cages.

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Bail Fund Partners • Dallas, TX • Durham, NC • Seattle, WA • New Orleans, LA • New York, NY

Tactical Bail Outs • Louisville, KY • Memphis, TN • Montgomery, AL • New York, NY • San Diego, CA • St. Louis, MO

Bail funds and tactical bail outs in solitary-like conditions in an adult prison 50 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights also supported miles from her home. Our intervention reunited community bail funds and leveraged “tactical Holmes with her family, generated tremendous bail outs” in collaboration with local partners local media attention (including a smart-phone outside New York to provide relief to individuals push-alert and front-page coverage from the unjustly jailed pretrial, accelerate the impact of main paper in Memphis), and injected additional community organizers and other local reform momentum into our partners’ campaign that campaigns and generate increased public resulted in ending the “safekeeping” policy that demand for reform by exposing the injustice of sent Holmes and other minor girls like her to the current system of wealth-based detention. adult prisons far from home to await trial.

In Dallas, we helped launch the first local Our bail out interventions have contributed to bail fund, and supported the Black August structural reform in Alabama (Birmingham DA bail reform campaign led by local community race), Missouri (St. Louis County bail litigation), organizers. Over the course of three weeks, the and Tennessee (state legislation to end the cruel campaign bailed out 27 people – the largest “safekeeping” practice). modern bail out campaign in one location at the time, and still the largest ever in Texas – and garnered new support and partnerships from public defenders and the media.

In Memphis, we partnered with Just City and Black Lives Matter to bail out Rosalyn “Bird” Holmes, a 16-year-old girl incarcerated pretrial

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BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Participants in our Hyannis Port, Mass., and United States to explore ways this sub-sector New York Compass Investor conferences gave can invest more in minority and women-owned us positive feedback about the strong content firms. The meeting was in response to areport offered and the diversity of attendees. Working commissioned by the John S. and James L. closely with 2018 conference chair Marvin Knight Foundation that indicated that just “1.1 Rosen, our team was strategic in attracting percent of the financial industry’s total assets attendees and sponsors and focused on program under management are allocated to firms owned design, content and execution. by women or under-represented minorities.”

The Compass Investor conferences raised Co-hosted by the NYU Stern Center for $2,555,088.28 in sponsorship and fees in 2018, Business and Human Rights, Diverse Asset with a record breaking $2,352,588 raised during Management Initiative and Robert F. Kennedy the Hyannis Port conference in June that was Human Rights, the meeting highlighted the need anchored in the 50th anniversary of Robert F. to establish metrics and measures for current Kennedy Human Rights. The two conferences levels of diversity as a key starting point for the attracted a total of 55 sponsors, including 27 sector. In late fall, we issued a follow-up survey newly acquired supporters, with a retention to the 30 largest university endowments to help rate of 83 percent of sponsors from the prior us better understand what data is available as fiscal year. Attendance at the conferences was we work to adjust investment practices and a record high with a combined total of 410 provide tools for developing new strategies. attendees, 70 percent of whom were present in Hyannis Port in June. Our board members led the way, bringing in their firms as lead sponsors of the event Our Compass team laid the foundation for including underwriter sponsor Vista Equity greater thought leadership and impact within the Partners and executive sponsors Ariel investment community around the themes that Investments, Greenberg Traurig, Guggenheim drive the content of the RFK Compass Investor and Siris Capital. Program: labor and supply chain, diversity and technology and information. In April, we brought together some of the largest endowments in the 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 8 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW

HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION

Training Funding received from: Our training partners in the United States: • The Marguerite Casey Foundation for work • United Federation of Teachers, New York with Baltimore’s Youth in Action • Holocaust Museum, Chicago • Humanity United to support our Discovery • National Council of the Social Studies Education project • University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. • Fund II Foundation to support our Discovery • SUNY Stony Brook Education partnership • Archdiocese National Roundtable, • Arizona Community Foundation for Speak Philadelphia Truth to Power implementation in Phoenix • Council on Social Work Education conference • Judge David Dreyer, from the Kennedy-King • National Association of Social Workers Memorial Initiative, secured a $10,000 grant conference for STTP teacher training supported by the Indianapolis Mayor’s Office Seven new lesson plans launched: • LaDonna Harris and Marisa Carr • and Jewell Jones International news • Ruby Bridges and Aaron Maybin • STTP Greece has trained 300 teachers, • Thurgood Marshall and Andrea James reaching an estimated 10,000 students. • Dolores Huerta and Lucas Benitez • STTP Switzerland hosted RFK Human Rights • Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth in Action and laureate and farmworker advocate Librada Paz to Rami Nashashibi attend the Human Rights Film Festival and meet • , Ash-Lee Woodard with students involved with STTP. Henderson and Rev. Allyn Maxfield-Steele • STTP Spain has developed additional teacher trainings resulting from its Partnerships for growth collaboration with the Education Ministry of • Global Citizen on launching the Virtual Field Trip Madrid. The ministry has agreed to include • Discovery Communications to scale STTP STTP in its “Respect and Tolerance” course • Archdiocese of NYC to introduce STTP to as a part of that curriculum. National Roundtable board • The Italian Ministry of Education recognized • Denmark to STTP Italy as a National Trainer Body. incorporate STTP into its current Human Rights Education work Contest winners • Eighth annual Speak Truth to Power Video Recognition Contest (in partnership with the Tribeca • Karen Robinson, Robert F. Kennedy Human Institute) – Gary Tyler, My Neighbor by high Rights’ STTP senior education manager, school students Ming-Wei Fasquelle and received the 2018 Edward O’Brien National Mwi Epalla, Los Angeles. Human Rights Educator Award. The award • Speak Up, Sing Out Music Contest (in was presented at the National Council for partnership with the GRAMMY Museum) – the Social Studies Conference, attended “Proclamation,” by high school student Ming- by more than 3,000 teachers and district An Fasquelle, Los Angeles. curriculum coordinators.

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YOUNG LEADERS Robert F. Kennedy Young Leaders launched Success university chapters, a major expansion that • Since our launch, RFK Young Leaders has focuses heavily on intersectionality and authentic expanded to eight student-led chapters youth engagement, prioritizing communities at across five different states and the District of the margins. Columbia. • Half of our university chapters are based at Program summary institutions that primarily serve students of color. Each year, our university chapters choose a • We collaborated with partners at Generation social issue relevant to their local communities, Titan to host our first national summit at SXSW. such as immigration, police brutality, access to reproductive health care, sentencing reform Current Young Leaders chapters or voting rights. Each chapter builds a year • Clark Atlanta University (HBCU) of programming around its chosen issue, • Howard University (HBCU) consisting of three unique components: • New York University • a campus-wide awareness campaign that • Texas Southern University (HBCU) amplifies conversations about their issue; • Texas State University (HACU) • a public service event providing a direct and • University of Houston tangible benefit to students on campus and • University of Pennsylvania individuals in the surrounding community; and • University of South Carolina • a community-building event that encourages RFK Young Leaders to promote their work on campus and recruit new student members.

“This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.” ROBERT F. KENNEDY

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AWARDS Robert F. Kennedy Book Award: International Photography The Blood of Emmett Till, Timothy B. Tyson (winner) “Mexico’s Misery,” Michael Robinson Chávez, Not a Crime to be Poor , Peter Edelman (special recognition) Joshua Partlow, Nick Kirkpatrick, and Mary Anne Golon, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award Recipients: Radio High School Broadcast “Help Wanted: Alabama’s Rural Health ‘‘‘I Wasn’t Comfortable’: Being a Student of Color Crisis,” Pat Duggins, Stan Ingold, and Alex in Garfield High’s Advanced Classes,” Jessie AuBuchon, Alabama Public Radio Nguyen and Carlin Bills with Surya Hendry, Radio Active Youth Media, KUOW Puget Sound New Media “Europe Slams Its Gates,” Ty McCormick, High School Print Nichole Sobecki, Peter Tinti, Jill Filipovic, and “One Incredible Goal,” Sarah Zimmerman, North Star, Cameron Abadi, Foreign Policy Francis Howell North High School, St. Charles, Mo. Cartoon College Journalism “Tom the Dancing Bug,” Ruben Bolling, “Home Sick,” Mark Boyle, Quanny Carr, Michael Andrews McMeel Syndication, Boing Boing, Errigo, Abby Mergenmeier, Jenna Milliner- Daily Kos, and GoComics Waddell, John Powers, Talia Richman, Jacob Taylor, Naema Ahmed, Ana Hurler, Helen Lyons, Domestic Television and Daniel Trielli, Capital News Service and Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992, John Ridley, Baltimore Urban Affairs Reporting Class Jeanmarie Condon, Fatima Curry, Melia Patria, and Colin Rich, ABC News Lincoln Square Productions Domestic Print “Harassed,” Jodi Kantor, , , International Television Michael S. Schmidt, , Catrin Einhorn, “Iraq Uncovered,” FRONTLINE in association Katie Benner, Rachel Abrams, Ellen Gabler, Susan with Channel 4, Ramita Navai, Paddy Wells, Dominus, Jim Rutenberg, Steve Eder, Melena Mais Al-Bayaa, Dan Edge, Eamonn Matthews, Ryzik, and Cara Buckley, Andrew Metz and Raney Aronson, 4PBS

International Print Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award “Rohingya Exodus,” Todd Pitman, Kristen Gelineau, Recipients: Robin McDowell, , Muneeza Naqvi, Color of Change Maye-E Wong, Rishabh Raj Jain, Bernat Armangue, March for Our Lives Gemunu Amarasinghe, and Dar Yasin, Associated International Indigenous Youth Council Press with the support of the Pulitzer Center United We Dream

Domestic Photography Ripple of Hope Award Recipients: “Maria’s Bodies,” Matt Black, Jody Quon, Bruce Broussard, CEO, Humana Health Marvin Orellana, and Mattathias Schwartz, New Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey York Magazine , 44th president, United States David Zaslav, CEO, Discovery Communications 11 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW

SUPPORT Board of Directors Donato Tramuto, Tivity Health Barry Volpert, Crestview Partners Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jim Wiatt, G2 Investment Group Human Rights, founder Robert F. Smith, Vista Equity Partners LLC, chair Leadership Council Terry Mazany, The Chicago Community Trust, co-vice chair CHAIRS Anthony Williams, Dentons, treasurer and Ethel Kennedy, founder, Robert F. Kennedy secretary Human Rights Frank A. Baker, Siris Capital Donato Tramuto, Tivity Health Peter Barbey, Village Voice , activist and entertainer FOUNDERS Tim Cook, Apple William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd president, Stephen DeCherney, University of North United States of America Carolina at Chapel Hill Thomas P. DiNapoli, comptroller, State of Peter B. Edelman, Georgetown University New York Law Center Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator, State of New York Mark E. Freitas, Mark Edwards Partners Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Lazard Mark Gearan, Institute of Politics at Harvard Schlossberg, Former U.S. University Ambassador to Japan Kenneth Goldman, Yahoo! Inc. Kerry Kennedy, president, Robert F. Kennedy Claudio Grossman, Washington College of Human Rights Law at American University Denise L. Nappier, treasurer, State of Connecticut Philip W. Johnston, Philip W. Johnston Gina Raimondo, Governor, State of Rhode Island Associates Amartya Sen, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Joe Kennedy III, U.S. House of economics Representatives Anne Simpson, CalPERS Kerry Kennedy, RFK Human Rights Ash Williams, executive director and CIO, Matthew Kennedy, Kennedy Merchant Partners Board of Administration, State of Florida Niclas Kjellström-Matseke, Perennis Marialina Marcucci, Robert F. Kennedy NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATES Foundation of Europe Oscar Arias, Costa Rica Elisa Massimino, Harvard University Carlos Ximenes Belo, East Timor Karen Mehiel, Kampack Incorporated Ouided Bouchamaoui, Tunisia B. Scott Minerd, Guggenheim Partners Shirin Ebadi, Iran James J. Pinto, MVC Acquisition Corp. Mohamed El Baradei, Egypt Michael H. Posner, Stern School of Business Leymah Gbowee, Liberia at New York University Tawakkol Karman, Yemen John W. Rogers, Jr., Ariel Investments José Ramos-Horta, East Timor Marvin S. Rosen, Greenburg Traurig Kailash Satyarthi, Todd Ruppert, Ruppert International David Trimble, Malika Saada Saar, Google Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Guatemala Jeffrey Sachs, Sachs Policy Group Desmond M. Tutu, South Africa Henry S. Schleiff, Discovery Communications, Inc. Lech Walesa, Poland Martin Sheen, actor Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh Pedro Torres-Mackie, Quotidian Ventures 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 12 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW

VISIONARIES Rafi Jafri Anne Finucane, Bank of America Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Marc and Diane Spilker lieutenant governor, State of Maryland Vardis and Marianna Vardinoyannis Raymond J. McGuire, Citigroup George Vradenburg Francesco Aletti Montano Federico Rolando CHAMPIONS David M. Rubenstein, The Carlyle Group Orin Kramer Karen D. Seitz, Fusion Partners Vincent Mai Jean Shafiroff Dewey Shay Elizabeth Smith Malik GROUNDBREAKERS Adolfo Vannucci Wendy and Jim Abrams Roger C. Altman, Evercore Partners John Boyer, Maximus Foundation ARTISTS Edward Dong, International Leadership Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Javier Bardem Richard and Eric Dong Natasha Bedingfield Howard L. Nations, Law Offices of Howard L. Michael Bolton Nations Lorraine Bracco Dan Olofsson Timothy Daly Howard Rubin, Rubin Systems Inc./ Rubin Rocky Dawuni Worldwide Renée Fleming James and Monica Shay Peter Gallagher Richard and Alexis Sternhell Melanie Griffith Marco Tronchetti Provera, Pirelli Charles Grodin Susan N. Wilson Dennis Haysbert Samuel L. Jackson ACTIVISTS Scarlett Johansson Joe Armstrong Quincy Jones Afsaneh Beschloss, The Rock Creek Group Catherine Keener Daniele Bodini, American Continental Elisa and Keegan-Michael Key Properties Group Richard Kind Mark and Monique Boling Joel Kinnaman Wallace Dietz Eva Longoria Ben Erwin, CharityBuzz Chad Lowe Gail Evertz, Guggenheim Partners Kate Mulgrew Richard E. Farley, Levin Naftalis & Frankel Mandy Patinkin Joseph S. Fichera, Saber Partners Vanessa Redgrave Laurence Fink, BlackRock Gloria Reuben Alan and Dafna Fleischmann Susan Sarandon Jonah Goodhart, Moat Stanley Tucci Albert Gore III, Strategic Capital Partners Debra Winger Robert and Laurie Gottlieb Scott Wolf Andrew and Shannon Hayden

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FINANCIALS

Expenses Revenue

18% 40% Administration 25% Grants Development & Fundraising 1% Other income 33% 4% Gala gifts 57% Membership 17% Programs 5% Special events Donated goods and services TOTAL EXPENSES TOTAL REVENUE $12,500,000 $19,200,000

Growth Historical revenues, expenses, and assets (in millions of dollars) Expenses 50 Revenue 40 Net assets

30

20

10

0 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Numbers have been rounded.

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OUR TEAM

Management and administration Young Leaders Kerry Kennedy, president Sierra Ewert, program director Michael Schreiber, chief operating officer Kristopher Sharp, student coordinator Lynn Delaney, senior advisor, executive Eli Dreyfus, program officer director, legacy Nelson Lewis, executive assistant to the president Advocacy & litigation Brigette Vannall Wallace, accountant Angelita Baeyens, program director Ricarda Velez-Negron, office manager Wade McMullen, managing attorney Diane Labadie, office manager, D.C. office David McKean, program officer Karin Ukpabi, special assistant, legacy 50th Kacey Mordecai, program officer anniversary Amanda Jack, project adviser, Rikers Island Brendan Nguyen, business management analyst Mass Bail Out Win Scarlett, digitization fellow Monsieree de Castro, program associate Naomi Glassman, Dale & James J. Pinto Fellow Sarah Dorman, Donald M. and Susan N. Development Wilson Fellow Nisa Patel, manager, stakeholder engagement Suzanne Lutz, associate director of development Monica Duran, development manager Lauren Thomas, Salesforce administrator

Communications Max Burns, director of communications Brenna Holland, communications associate Remy Linback, graphic designer

Teaching human rights John Heffernan, executive director, Speak Truth to Power Jennifer Girardi, program coordinator Karen Robinson, senior education and training manager

Engaging the business community Sancia Dalley, senior vice president, strategic partnerships Kai Erlenbusch, program analyst, RFK Compass

15 2018 ANNUAL REPORT “All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people — speaking out — in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out — in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes — let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.” ROBERT F. KENNEDY

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