Kennedy Rostenkowski is the Senior Associate Director of Events at the Indiana University Alumni Association. With over a decade of strategic event planning experience and 7 years in higher education events, Kennedy understands the demand, now more than ever, to be collaborative and deliberate with the time, resources, and staffing challenges that come in today's world of Higher Education and Advancement. Her role oversees all event planning logistics for the Alumni Association's signature programming, strategic initiatives pertaining to programs and events, as well as her own portfolio of events related to large scale programming, governance, and multi-day conferences and events.

Kennedy holds a bachelor's degree from Indiana University in Tourism, Hospitality, and Event Management and completed her Certified Meeting Professional certificate in 2021. Kennedy has grown with the Indiana University Alumni Association, holding various events positions over the years, and has seen first hand how imperative efficiency and strategic planning is to any event planning lifecycle and how vendor vetting and the selection of quality vendors, that align with your organization's values, can make or break the success of any event.