Kelsey Proud

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT KELSEY PROUD

Kelsey Proud currently serves on the leadership team of the Online News Association as Interim Head of Programs. She oversees ONA’s Program Team and leads the strategic vision and operations of all ONA programs and community engagement, including its signature annual conference, year-round training on emerging technology and leadership development, networking and community resources. Previously, she served as ONA\'s Learning Director with a portfolio including leading the Women’s Leadership Accelerator (#ONAWLA) program, the Digital Women Leaders mentorship initiative and all educational programming for ONA’s annual conference, along with other select projects. On an occasional basis, she is also an independent editor, trainer, coach and strategic consultant. To everything Kelsey does she brings more than a decade of experience creating innovative journalism, developing engaging learning experiences and leading strong teams. Before ONA, Kelsey was Managing Editor of Audience at WAMU in D.C. where she led a team of digital journalists, coordinated newsroom training initiatives, and consulted on projects across the organization. To begin her career, Kelsey spent six years at St. Louis Public Radio in digital and management roles. During her time in St. Louis, the station earned several national awards for digital work including a Peabody-Facebook Futures of Media Award, an Online Journalism Award from the Online News Association and an Edward R. Murrow award. Mentoring, training, progress and inclusion have been central to Kelsey throughout her career — she has volunteered as an active member of diversity and inclusion committees in her workplaces and as a mentor within the Next Generation Radio and Public Media Women In Journalism programs, among others. Kelsey has been a co-leader and trainer of the Public Media Journalists Association Editor\'s Workshop and her writing on the industry has been published by the Nieman Journalism Lab, NPR Training and others. She is a frequent guest speaker to student and other groups. Kelsey is a former fellow with the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, participated in NPR’s Incubation Lab, and is a member of the 2017 cohort of the Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media. She continues to coach for free through Digital Women Leaders (now powered by the Online News Association) and is open to different coaching arrangements on contract. Kelsey currently lives in Indianapolis with her husband and is available to discuss local, remote or travel-to-you collaborations.