Joe Kennedy is a co-founder and former director of Builders Without Borders (BWB), an organization dedicated to serving the underhoused with projects on the U.S./Mexico border and U.S. Indian reservations. He is a co-editor of The Art of Natural Building as well as a contributor to Natural Home and other natural building journals.

His newest book is Building Without Borders: Sustainable Construction for the Global Village (New Society Publishers). He currently teaches in the EcoDwelling Concentration of New College of California's Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community Program in Santa Rosa.

He speaks on natural building, global housing needs, and sustainable development.