Lorelei Kelly

Lorelai Kelly is founder of GeoDES:Georgetown Democracy, Education+Service. GeoDES intends to be Congress' go-to academic ally to build on technology and data modernization in the House & Senate. It will also offer community workshops to share knowledge and bolster skills at the local level in service of a more accountable, representative and effective government.

Previously, Kelly served as the Senior Fellow and Director of the Resilient Democracy Coalition at Georgetown University's Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation. Also, she is a Fellow at X Lab: a group that seeks shared outcomes for societies around the world through new technology. From 2009-2011, Kelly directed the New Strategic Security Initiative. Her professional background includes teaching at Stanford University’s Center on Conflict and Negotiation and Senior Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, a D.C. think tank. In 1998, she founded and led "Security for a New Century,” a bipartisan study group that continues today–supporting cutting-edge knowledge on foreign policy and defense issues for Congressional Members and staff in both the House and Senate. More recently, she worked with women candidates– Democrats and Republicans- as the Real Security Initiative Director at the White House Project in NYC. She is an expert on civil-military relations and completed the Air Command and Staff College program of the U.S. Air Force. Follow her on Twitter @loreleilkelly.