Hi there! 👋🏻
I'm Kelsey McGrath,
a multi-hyphenated arts leader. My values are belonging, creativity, and curiosity.
I’m interested in leading change and challenging possibility through live events and experiences.
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✨ Professional + Creative ✨
I’m currently a student with Northwestern University in their Master’s of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises program, specializing in strategic communications, creative production, and entrepreneurship 📚. My expected graduation date is March 2024. 🎓
I’m currently searching for a full-time job or multiple part-time opportunities that honor my strengths and my passions!
From 2019-2023, I worked with BLVE Consults as an Associate Consultant, Project Manager, and In-House Designer 💻. Our work with nonprofit Arts + Culture organizations spanned from Organizational Assessment, to Development & Fundraising Planning, to Mergers + Acquisitions, and so much more.
All with the singular mission of helping people through radical empathy. ♥️
I currently work with BLVE as a Supporting Consultant, working on a project-based capacity.
Creativity is my source. I love making things that make people feel Connected, Seen, and Alive. I’m a non-equity actor in Chicago 🎭, and have written + performed in live story telling events with Pour One Out ✍🏻, among others. I also exercise my design + photography practice through Instagram 📸.
I’ve independently produced + consulted with Prairie Creek Productions, Red Tape Theater, Redtwist Theater, and Red Theater 🎭. In 2019, I was honored as a Windy City Times 30 Under 30 recipient for my founding of The Newness, an intersectional, interdisciplinary cabaret 🎤.
