Kelsey has the heart of a chaplain, teacher, organizer, and coach. She is a former professional soccer player and her athletic career was shaped by US Youth National Teams as a goalkeeper at every youth national team level, including as a member of the 2004 U19 FIFA World Cup and 2006 U20 FIFA World Cup teams, and was grateful to be called into one camp with the US Women’s National Team in 2009. She played college soccer at the University of Portland where she earned honors as an All-American, Scholar All-American and was a Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award Finalist. Kelsey coached collegiately at the University of Portland and Texas Christian University. She has worked as a goalkeeper coach for US Youth National Teams, where she was a member of the coaching staff that won the U15 CONCACAF Championship in 2016. Kelsey coached a season for Asheville City Soccer Club, a pre-professional women’s team. She has served as Player Affairs Manager with the NWSL Players Association, the labor union that represents the professional athletes of the NWSL.

Kelsey holds a Master of Divinity and Certificate in Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture from Vanderbilt Divinity School where she graduated with top honors as a Founder’s Medalist, and earned awards in field education and theology & ethics. While at Vanderbilt, she served as a Fellow in the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership. She has a Certificate in Anglican Studies from Iona WNC/Seminary of the Southwest, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theology from the University of Portland.

She is a Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher.

She has been a guest on the podcasts Out Loud: LGBT Stories for Faith, Going Deep: Sports in the 21st Century, Hustle Rule: Untold Stories of Women’s Soccer, and Theosophia: Women’s Voices in Theology. She shares her story of being Queer + Christian as a speaker, workshop leader, and facilitator, and as a contributor to the books Under the Lights and in the Dark: Untold Stories of Women’s Soccer by Gwendolyn Oxenham and The Millennial Narrative: Sharing the Good Life with the Next Generation by Jaco H. Hamman. Kelsey is a co-producer of the award winning documentary Thistle: stories of hope and healing from the women of Thistle Farms.

She served on the Bishop’s staff in the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real as Curator for Emerging Communities & Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina as Director of Blue Ridge Service Corps and Campus Minister at UNC Asheville and Western Carolina University. She serves on the Diocesan Beloved Community Commission that works to dismantle racism, and promote racial healing and reconciliation.

In addition, she serves on the board for the Center for Contemplative Justice and is an ordained priest in The Episcopal Church. She currently is the Bishop's Deputy for Disaster Response & Relief in WNC, Curate at the Cathedral of All Souls, and Missioner at St. George's Episcopal Church in Asheville.

Kelsey is an enrolled member of the Choctaw of Oklahoma and lives in Asheville, NC along the French Broad River Watershed with her wife, Heather, and their two children.