Kelli has worked in public relations for nearly two decades. She has extensive experience providing counsel, researching, planning, implementing and evaluating communication initiatives. Much of her crisis management experience comes managing stakeholder communication related to multi-fatality incidents in the wildland firefighting industry.
She proactively provides RepUs partner clients with timely, sound counsel on if, how and when to communicate to target audiences during a crisis.
She also has a wide breadth of experience in public sector, private industry and nonprofit work. Her 15 years of teaching experience at both the undergraduate and graduate level at the University of Oregon keeps her on the cutting edge of research and practice. Her particular areas of focus include digital strategy, media relations and crisis communications.