[2][3] After retirement in 2013, she was recalled to service in 2014 to serve as Chargé d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Turkmenistan and then the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna (UNVIE), leaving government again in 2015.

[5][6] She is a member of the Szilard Advisory Board of the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, the Deep Cuts Commission, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the Leadership Council for Women in National Security.

During that time, she worked as a guide with an official U.S. exhibit touring the Soviet republics of Ukraine, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.

[3] During Kennedy's time at the U.S.Embassy in Ankara 1990-3, she was detailed to Operation Provide Comfort in the wake of the Kurdish refugee crisis after the Gulf War.

As Director for Central Asia 1995-7, Kennedy developed U.S.relations with the new independent states of the former Soviet Union and helped integrate them in regional and international institutions.

[2] Kennedy returned to Washington in 2003 as Dean of the Senior Seminar, the State Department's inter-agency leadership program.

[2] She was Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva 2010-13 and concurrently Special Representative for Biological Weapons Convention Issues.

[10] Kennedy has lectured at universities and institutions including as the visiting DACOR Diplomat at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College 2016-17.