Kelly Creeden

As Marketing Program Manager, Kelly Creeden oversees the planning, programming and management of the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford in the U.K..  She also manages Foundation participation in other events, ensuring quality and consistency across Skoll Foundation event marketing activities.  In addition, she supports broader Skoll Foundation marketing initiatives around the “Uncommon Heroes” short films featuring Skoll award recipients.

Kelly Creeden brings a wealth of marketing experience to the foundation from a career spanning the private, public and non-profit sectors. She joined the Foundation from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was Assistant Director of University Events and Ceremonies. In that role, she planned, produced and managed high-profile events for the chancellor and University Relations department, serving as a key component of the University’s alumni and donor cultivation programs.

Before UC Berkeley, she produced events for HGI Ventures in San Francisco, where she helped plan and manage logistics for 400 volunteers for the Avon Wall for Breast Cancer, a major, multiday fundraising walk.  Before that, she managed donor cultivation and fundraising for the International Museum of Women in San Francisco.  Earlier in her career, she helped run the Make-a-Wish Foundation’s Mid-Atlantic region wish fulfillment program.  Kelly launched her professional career while still in high school, being selected to serve as a U.S. House of Representatives page in a very competitive national process.

Kelly’s takes her interest in social change beyond the workplace, volunteering for numerous activities in the community.  She has worked with the Princess Project to provide free prom dresses to students who can’t afford them. She served as the executive director of Moment of Hope in New York, an organization founded to engage high school students in social change. She has served on the steering committee for VDAY San Francisco, a campaign to stop violence against women, and was also a member of the Women’s Roundtable to End Abuse.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in English language and literature from the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland.