She attended a convent school in Navan until she was thirteen when her father died and the family lost their inheritance.
The campaign focused on allowing more women into supervisory positions in public education as well as elected offices while paying them equally to men.
"[1] Kennedy challenged her dismissal and sued the school district for her position and back pay, citing the California Tenure Law of 1881.
[3] Kennedy maintained from the early 1870s until her death a keen devotion to the social perspective that the economic value of land belonged to the whole of community.
She served in 1886 as Secretary of the California Land Reform League, which was devoted to the ideas of Henry George.
George, a San Francisco journalist, authored Progress & Poverty in 1879, a text making the case for socializing the entirety of the market rent of land as a means of restoring collective ownership of the economic value of planet Earth.
Her commitment to George's Land Value Tax is made plain in her text, "Dr. Paley's Foolish Pigeons and Short Sermons to Working Men," published posthumously by her brother Patrick in 1906.