On January 12, his first campaign event poignantly honored words she’d written in her powerful November essay in ‘The New Yorker.’

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Jack Schlossberg and Tatiana Schlossberg on September 19, 2013

Jack Schlossberg is back on the campaign trail two weeks after his older sister Tatiana Schlossberg died on December 30 at just 35 years old.

Jack announced his run for Congress on November 11, just 11 days before Tatiana’s emotional essay for The New Yorker ran on November 22, where she publicly announced that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Just over one month later, she succumbed to the illness, and her funeral was held in New York City on January 5.

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Jack Schlossberg and his father Edwin Schlossberg at Tatiana Schlossberg’s funeral on January 5, 2026

On January 12, Jack was back to work, attending a rally to show his support for the New York State Nurses Association as they went on strike. As People astutely pointed out, Jack’s first public event after his sister’s death is poignant, as it echoes a line in her essay that read “nurses should take over” because she’d never seen people “who are more competent, more full of grace and empathy, [and] more willing to serve others.”

Speaking through a bullhorn at the event and echoing Tatiana’s sentiments, Jack told the crowd, “Nurses should rule the world, if you ask me.”

“Nothing is more important than supporting our nurses,” he added. “I’m running for Congress because nurses deserve a fair shot.”

In a caption written alongside an Instagram post, Jack wrote that he was “Proud to stand with @nynurses today. Nurses deserve more than our thanks—they deserve a fair contract, safe working conditions, and healthcare benefits.”

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Tatiana Schlossberg and Jack Schlossberg on June 22, 2013

In her essay for The New Yorker—published poignantly on the anniversary of her grandfather President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination—Tatiana wrote of her family, “My parents and my brother and sister, too, have been raising my children and sitting in my various hospital rooms almost every day for the last year and a half. They have held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it.”

Tatiana, who in addition to her brother Jack has a sister, Rose, said of her siblings and her parents Edwin Schlossberg and Caroline Kennedy, “This has been a great gift, even though I feel their pain every day.”

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Tatiana Schlossberg on September 5, 2019

One week after Tatiana’s funeral at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyala on the Upper East Side—the same church where grandmother Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s funeral was in 1994—Jack was back at work, reflective of a photo he shared of himself and Tatiana from 2011 on the day of her funeral the week prior. In the photo, Jack and Tatiana stand side-by-side, their right hands over their hearts, as they attended an event at the U.S. Capitol—reflective of the Kennedys’ generational commitment to serving their country.

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Jack Schlossberg and Tatiana Schlossberg

“They all recognize that as Kennedys, they have been given great privileges and that they owe something to the public and that they try to strike a balance between their privacy and their personal grief and their recognition of the role that they play in American public life,” presidential historian Steven M. Gillon told People.