Sheila Kennedy received her Bachelor's Degree in history, philosophy and literature from the College of Letters at Wesleyan University. Kennedy studied architecture at the Ecole National Supérieure des

 Beaux Arts in Paris and received the Masters of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University where she won the SOM National Traveling Fellowship and was graduated with 

Distinction, the School's highest academic honor. As Associate Professor at Harvard University s Graduate School of Design, Kennedy was Director of the M Arch II Program from 1991-1995 and is 

currently Professor of the Practice of Architecture at MIT.