Kelsey received her Bachelor of Journalism in strategic communication from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she also minored in Italian studies, and an MBA from Olin Business School at WashU. She started her career at the Savannah College of Art & Design before moving back to St. Louis to settle into an entry-level public relations role at a boutique PR firm. There, she spent countless hours coordinating media relations, handling social media strategies, and writing content for in-house and external publications for her clients, which ranged from healthcare and academia to travel and tourism. After three years she decided to slow down a bit and began a strategist role at WashU before migrating to the Department of Anesthesiology at WashU Medicine where she currently handles all aspects of website development, social media, and writing stories and articles for the website.