During the 2015-2016 school year, Kelly worked as an upper school history and religion teacher at Masters. She most recently worked as a learning specialist in history and a literature/writing teacher at Winston Preparatory School in New York City. She has also worked as a teacher for NYC STEM Club and as site operations manager at New Classrooms. Kelly has a B.A. in English from Davidson College, an M.A. in religion from the University of Georgia and is a doctoral candidate in religion at Vanderbilt University.