Kennedy is a researcher and arts administrator interested in decolonizing practices in art making, curation and public programming that work to reimagine how institutions engage with BIPOC communities and their stories. She received her Master's in Public Humanities from Brown University, where her thesis explored how the conditions of Blackness trouble one's engagement and encounter with Black art objects. She works at MoMA as the Media and Performance Black Arts Council Intern, and she is a member of Archive Books publishing collective.