Jeremy Kelley

Project Manager

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As project manager in JFF’s Building Economic Opportunity Group, Jeremy Kelley works on Breaking Through, an initiative enabling adults with less-than-eighth-grade skills to prepare for and succeed in community college technical programs. He helps to identify best practices and program models for advancing adults through postsecondary education, as well as policies that can promote these practices and models. His focus is on helping Breaking Through community colleges in Kentucky, Michigan, and North Carolina to enable adults who already have accumulated some college credit to earn degrees. This work is part of JFF’s participation in Lumina Foundation for Education’s Adult Degree Completion strategy.

Before coming to JFF, Mr. Kelley was a project coordinator for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Safe Neighborhood Initiative. He organized and implemented community action initiatives focusing on public safety matters, developed grant applications, managed the disbursement of grant funding, and co-directed a reentry program for ex-criminal offenders.

Mr. Kelley earned his B.A. in law, jurisprudence, and social thought from Amherst College.