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Vanessa Kerry (born December 31, 1976Vanessa Kerry is the younger daughter of U.S. Senator and former Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. She attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 1995. Kerry graduated summa cum laude (with highest honors) from Yale University. At Yale she majored in pre-med and was a member of the varsity lacrosse team. After graduation, she enrolled in Harvard University Medical School. She took brief leave from her medical studies in order to campaign for her father's presidential bid, and is currently in a joint master's program in health policy at the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

She has an elder sister, Alexandra Kerry, and her mother is Julia Thorne, to whom John Kerry was married from 1970 until 1988.