Maureen “Shawn” Kennedy, MA, RN, FAAN has been the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Nursing since 2009. Before arriving at the journal, she worked as the director of education for a private CE firm and as adjunct faculty. As a clinician, Shawn was a clinical nurse specialist in acute care at a community hospital in New Jersey, a chemotherapy nurse in a Manhattan medical practice, and an emergency nurse at Bellevue Hospital Medical Center in New York City. She has a BSN from Hunter College-Bellevue School of Nursing and a master’s degree from New York University College of Nursing. Author of several book chapters and numerous articles in AJN and other professional journals, she coauthored with Thelma Schorr, 100 Years of American Nursing, a pictorial documentary of nursing in the 19th century. She’s been inducted into the Hunter College Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Nursing. In 2016, she received the Margaret Comerford Freda Award for Editorial Leadership from the International Academy of Nurse Editors, and in 2017, she was awarded The Nightingale Initiative for Global Health Advocacy in Action Award for excellence in promoting nursing scholarship. She is a member of the American Nurses Association, the New Jersey State Nurses Association, the American Academy of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International and the Association of Healthcare Journalists.