Kellye McKenzie, MPA currently serves as Managing Director of GOODSTOCK Consulting, which connects hospitals, businesses and social service agencies to produce measurable health changes and equitable long-term healthcare impact within underserved communities.
She spent nearly a decade in Washington, D.C. working in various areas of public health including HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, women’s health, and school based health issues. She served as Executive Director of Peer Health Exchange, Washington, D.C., leading fundraising and strategy development, and supporting the training of over 260 college students to teach a skills-based health curriculum to over 2,000 students in nine under-resourced high schools in the District. She also served as the Washington, D.C. Executive Director of Wyman Center, and in management positions at National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (where she developed a regional model to address HIV/AIDS among African American women), and School Based Health Assembly.
Kellye is proud to have started her career as an HIV/AIDS Educator in the Peace Corps in Jamaica in 1999. She returned to the Peace Corps to serve as Associate Peace Corps Director in Western Samoa from 2008-2011.
She received her Masters of Public Administration from New York University, Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, where she was awarded a Public Service Fellowship and her BA in English from Spelman College.