Kelly Jean Kelly

I’m a reporter for The Post and Courier, a daily newspaper based in Charleston, South Carolina. I write about Hilton Head Island, where I live, and the surrounding Beaufort County. 

Before that, I lived in Washington, DC and worked as a broadcast journalist for Voice of America. 

And before that, I lived in New York, Bangkok, and San Francisco and did a lot of freelance writing and editing. 

In my career, I've been lucky enough to cover the 2008 campaigns; create video scripts about each of the U.S. presidents and characterize them with a single word (Zachary Taylor: Brief); host live radio shows about East Africa and South Asia; review nonfiction book titles; teach Logic and Rhetoric; and help many people figure out what they want to say and how they want to say it. 

All throughout, I’ve led workshops for underrepresented experts on entering the public conversation and being heard. 

​I have an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia and a BA in African Studies from Yale.

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