Jeremy Kelley

Project Manager, Building Economic Opportunity

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As a project manager in JFF’s Building Economic Opportunity Group, Jeremy Kelley coordinates the Adult Completion Policy Project, JFF’s policy initiative increasing occupational program enrollment and completion for adults who previously earned college credit but did not achieve a degree in Kentucky, Michigan, and North Carolina. This work is part of JFF’s participation in Lumina Foundation for Education’s Adult Degree Completion strategy. He also conducts research and delivers presentations for Credentials That Work, JFF’s emerging work in the development and application of labor market information (LMI) and workforce research supported by the Lumina Foundation for Education and the Joyce Foundation. Previously at JFF he managed a network of Breaking Through community colleges in Kentucky. 

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.