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Thornton Kennedy is a longtime local journalist, public relations professional and small business owner. He got his start in journalism while attending Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, N.C., where he worked on the copy desk of the Gaston Gazette. When he got back to Atlanta after earning a degree in English literature, he took a job with the Marietta Daily Journal before jumping to the Northside Neighbor, where he was the editor for five years. Most recently he served as an editor with the Atlanta Business Chronicle. For more than a decade now, he has been writing a weekly column in the Northside Neighbor. In 2009, he launched PR South, a boutique public relations firm focused on real estate, financial & professional services and non-profits.

He is a sixth generation Atlantan on both his mother’s and his father’s sides of his family. He was born and raised in Buckhead, and he and his wife Lori raised their family there. Their daughter is a Freshman at the College of Charleston and their son is a Junior at the University of Maryland. Most weekends you can find him hiking along the bank of the Chattahoochee River on land that had been in his family for several generations before becoming a core piece of the national recreation area. 

He is civically active, having served on the executive committee of the Atlanta Humane Society and on the boards of the Atlanta Preservation Center and the Georgia board of the Trust for Public Land. He is a past-president of the Snake Nation Social Club, a young members guild of the Atlanta History Center, and still volunteers there. He currently serves on the boards of the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta, Buckhead Heritage, the Atlanta Music Festival Association and the Easterling-Hallman Foundation, which supports the University of South Carolina library.