Kelly is the Co-Executive Director of Project for Public Spaces overseeing the Market Cities Program, events and educational offerings, and general operations and finance. Since joining the organization in 2006, Kelly has worked extensively with all of the programs and departments within the organization. Prior to her current role, Kelly was the project manager and later director for all projects related to the planning, design, and development of public markets, as well as the popular How to Create Successful Markets training and the last four International Public Markets Conferences (2009, 2012, 2015, 2019). Prior to working at Project for Public Spaces, she was on the administrative team at GrowNYC Greenmarkets, one of the country’s largest farmers market networks, and was an apprentice farmer at The Farm School in central Massachusetts. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband Patrick and their children Eliza and Henry.

Learn more:

Project for Public Spaces: https://www.pps.org/ 

Market Cities (a program of PPS): https://www.marketcities.org/

11th International Public Markets Conference (registration opens Feb. 17): https://publicmarkets.pps.org/