After earning his BA in English from Dartmouth College in 1978, Kendal Price began a journalism career in Beirut during Lebanon’s civil war. Before heading to Angola for a year to cover the SWAPO guerrilla insurgency against South Africa, he met Executive Director Peter Bird Martin. ICWA offered him the opportunity as an African American to report from inside apartheid South Africa for two years instead.
After returning, Kendal earned a master’s degree in law and diplomacy from Tufts University’s Fletcher School, focused on low-intensity conflict and terrorism, and cofounded the African Studies Group. He then earned a JD from Boston University School of Law, practiced corporate and banking law for 20 years, served as a bureau chief in the City of Boston’s Law Department and became a principal of Melius, a Boston-based legal consulting firm focused on financial services and government False Claims Act cases. In 2022, he became a federal whistleblower, providing evidence to Congress and the Department of Justice showing how, via his spouse, US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had received millions of dollars in payments from law firms appearing before the court.