Kelsey is a Senior Privacy Associate at Aleada Consulting, where she advises clients on privacy and data protection issues. Kelsey is also an adjunct professor with the William and Mary School of Law.

Previously, Kelsey was Senior Privacy Counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum where she led FPF’s work on smart cities and communities and established the Civic Privacy Leaders Network, among other projects. Kelsey collaborated with senior privacy leaders in industry, government, academia, and civil society to build best practices, conduct maturity assessments, inform sound policymaking, and create educational materials to advance responsible data practices for emerging technologies.

Before FPF, Kelsey was an inaugural Westin Fellow at the International Association of Privacy Professionals, where she produced practical research on a range of privacy topics and edited the FTC Privacy & Security Casebook.

She is a graduate of Smith College and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, with a concentration in Intellectual Property and Information Law. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM).