Kelley Gulley

Senior Program Officer
The James Irvine Foundation

Kelley is a senior program officer at Irvine, splitting her time between grantmaking in Southern California as part of the Career Readiness and Living Wage Work Initiative and serving on the Impact, Assessment & Learning Team. Prior to joining Irvine, Kelley served as interim managing director/director of Portfolio Management at the Thrive Foundation for Youth, in Menlo Park, California. There she implemented a national grantmaking strategy to support long-term mentoring programs operating in urban areas, resulting in high percentages of youth graduating from high school and college, many of whom were first-generation students. Kelley’s faith-based work has included being the strategic initiatives administrator at Eastern Star Church and teaching and preaching as a licensed, ordained minister at World Conquerors Church in Oakland.