JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg, 32, attends sister Tatiana’s funeral after her death from cancer at 35; President Biden also present.

She graduated from Yale University and later earned a master’s degree from the University of Oxford before rising to national prominence as a science and climate reporter for The New York Times. Her writing explored the intersections of environment, public policy, and everyday life, bringing complex topics to a broad readership with clarity and humanity.

In 2019, she published Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have, a thoughtful exploration of how seemingly small choices accumulate into large ecological effects.

The book was widely praised for its insight, wit, and practical clarity, earning recognition within the environmental reporting community and beyond.

Tatiana’s final months were spent with remarkable courage and openness. In her New Yorker essay, she wrote about the surreal nature of facing a terminal diagnosis while caring for a newborn—an experience that blurred the line between ordinary life and extraordinary fear.

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