Kelly Bare

Kelly Bare, Ed.D. is an interdisciplinary educator and community-engaged researcher-creator currently serving as Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco in two programs headquartered in Washington, D.C. In the Master of Public Leadership program, she works with adults nationwide, many of whom are affiliated with the United States military and some of whom hold elected or appointed offices at various levels of government. In the USF in D.C. program, she works with undergraduates interning in D.C. Her community-engaged postformal and critical kaleidoscopic research takes innovative methodological approaches to understand the challenges of collaborative leadership across socially constructed lines of difference. She is a founding member of the Collective for the Advancement of Methodological Innovation in Research and a member of the Open AI Red Teaming Network. Kelly is evolving into an academic from a journalist and publishing professional: A Medill School of Journalism graduate at Northwestern University (BSJ/MSJ), she spent the first half of her career in book publishing, magazines, and digital media, including HarperCollins, The New Yorker, and Bloomberg.