Kelly joins the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning as assistant director of educational and program assessment. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her PhD in Research, Measurement, & Evaluation from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to joining McGraw, Kelly was a senior research scientist at the College Board, where she conducted higher education and K12-focused research around assessment validity, predicting college outcomes, and psychometrics.