Kelly came to UNL for the first time in 1994 as an undergraduate transfer student into the College of Fine and Performing Arts. Working full-time and attending classes part-time, she graduated with her BFA in December 2001. Unable to stay away for long, she returned to UNL on April 1, 2002 and began work as the preservation/conservation technician for the University Libraries, continuing in that role for four years. In the summer of 2006 Kelly travelled to Indiana to attend graduate school at Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis.

In March of 2008 Kelly returned to UNL once more, this time to work in the Office of Undergraduate Studies (OUS) where her work originally focused on general education and the implementation of UNL's new Achievement-Centered Education (ACE) program. Then in the summer of 2009 she moved in to her current position of Program Assessment Coordinator.

Kelly's Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in studio art is from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and she has a Master of Library Science degree from Indiana University.

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