Bid Higher than the next guy and you can...

• Accompany Donna Karan and Ben Stiller on a humanitarian trip to Haiti
• Enjoy a private cooking lesson with the queen of southern cuisine, Paula Deen, in Savannah, GA
• Score two tickets to the exclusive Elton John AIDS Foundation's Academy Awards Viewing Party
• Meet Betty White after a taping of Hot in Cleveland in Los Angeles
• Score a walk-on role in the next installment of American Pie - American Reunion

Kerry Kennedy has joined forces for the 5th year in a row with the on-line Charity auction site, Charity Buzz, to raise funds and awareness for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights. Think being the seventh of eleven children (and yes, being the daughter of Robert and Ethel helps too!) contributes to her incredible skills of bringing teams of people together to raise funds and support the RFK Center and its initiatives: advocating for children in Haiti, bringing an end to brutal oppression in Zimbabwe and working on behalf of Gulf Coast residents still recovering from Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil disaster. The auction is a great way to educate and interest the general public about all the good that they are doing.  Kennedy says of the auction: "This is an opportunity for donors to do good and have a once-in-a-lifetime experience."  

We were lucky enough to ask Kerry Kennedy a few of our favorite Milkshake questions and get a once in a lifetime experience ourselves... an interview with one of America's royalty.  


1. What is your favorite journey?
    My favorite journey is the daily sail from the Hyannis Port harbor to a sandbar known as Egg Island. My brother Max invites all the nieces and  nephews and their neighborhood friends -- often eight or ten adults plus 30 or 40 children -- and we eat peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches, sing, and enjoy the sunshine and saltwater of Nantucket Sound.

2. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
     Being with the people I love and with the heroes of human rights who are working on justice and peace.

3. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
     Torture in a dark and miserable dungeon.

4. Who are your favorite heroes in literature?
     Right now, I’m thinking of Phineas, the hero of John Knowles’ book A Separate Peace, because it’s a classic coming-of-age story, and the character was based on David Hackett, who was my father’s best friend and whose funeral I attended yesterday.

5. Who are your favorite heroes in real life?
     They are Lucas Benitez, the farm worker in South Florida who has emancipated over 1000 people from slavery over the last 15 years. Loune Viaud, who established the right to water in Haiti, saving tens of thousands of lives. Abel Hernandez, under constant death threat for protecting indigenous people in southern Mexico from police and military brutality. Magodonga Mahlangu and “Women of Zimbabwe Arise” -- the women of Zimbabwe who advocate for universal education and democracy—and there are so many others around the world who risk imprisonment, torture, and death for basic human rights.

6. How do you define “good”?
     Any combination of chocolate, sugar, flour, and butter, and preferably including whipped cream.

7. What is your favorite cause?
     Social Justice.

8. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
     Raising my three daughters and freeing political prisoners.

9. Your favorite virtue?
    Love.

10. What is your present state of mind?
      Usually, it’s “rushed.”

11. What is your motto?
       Well, I suppose I should have a motto, but I don’t have one –yet!