Jean P. Kelly

Journalist and professor Jean P. Kelly believes in the power of stories, both hers and others’, to give hope, build faith, and improve communities. She regularly contributes essays, cultural commentary, and feature stories to national magazines and websites, including U.S. Catholic, Sick Pilgrim. She often explores in her work the intersections of faith, intellect, and writing and reading as forms of prayer. She is currently writing a memoir about her pilgrimages to the geographies and intellectual depths of American Catholic writers and journalists. As a faculty member at Otterbein University in Ohio, Jean puts faith in action through community-based research and service learning storytelling projects in urban neighborhoods.