Kelly  was a CNS-INSET Summer intern in 2012.  She was mentored by Galen Stocking and worked on a project for IRG2 that collected and analyzed data about nanotechnology education and the workforce in California.  Prior to her time at CNS she had just finished her last semester at Santa Barbara City College and transferred to UCSB in fall 2012.  She is  a Statistical Science major and is specifically interested in applications in the social sciences.