Project 21 Ambassador Diann Kelly, Ph.D., LMSW, serves as Associate Provost for Student Success, Professor in Social Work and former Interim Dean at Adelphi University School of Social Work.
Diann has authored many articles on civic engagement and service learning, as well as child and adolescent development. In addition to these publications, she is also the editor and author of Treating Young Veterans, a book on ways to service the veteran community, as well as other books on child abuse and neglect, social activism and contemporary slavery. She is working on a book on civic engagement.
Diann served as an American Council on Education Fellow at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. She is a former Fahs Beck Fellow with the New York Community Trust, in which she explored the social components of the Civil Rights Era and the influence of these components on civic engagement.
She earned her BA in Journalism from Temple University and her MSW and Ph.D. from Fordham University. She is a former Girl Scout leader and former volunteer with the American Red Cross, where she performed national service. She serves on the board of the Child Care Council of Westchester, where she leads the Board Development committee. She lives in New York with her husband, Dr. Damyn Kelly, and their two daughters, Cheyenne, an early intervention social worker, and Chelsea, an equestrian and psychology student.