After 12 years of real estate and finance experience spanning business development, project management, finance, sustainable development, project management, team building and real estate investing, Kelly has a dynamic background suited for large sustainable real estate development projects.As a real estate investor, Kelly co-founded a real estate group with over 1000 members and spoke on stages with top real estate professionals in Sacramento, CA. She also trained and managed a team of over 200 real estate investors. She owned and managed multiple fix and flip properties and rentals at once, running large teams of contractors, architects, and other experts.She has incorporated best practices for environmental, social and governance structures as a Sustainability Consultant for large commercial real estate companies such as Howard Hughes, GID, PGIM, and Jamestown with diverse portfolios of multi-family, office, and industrial buildings, with over $100 Billion in assets under management.As Founder and CEO of New Earth Development, Kelly specializes in creating environments that allow humanity to thrive and live harmoniously with nature, each other, and the planet. She uses permaculture principles to create homes with renewable energy, clean water, food forests, recycled and low-consumption water systems, zero-waste systems, and regenerative materials that will last hundreds of years.Through traveling to over 60 eco-communities across 7 countries and 3 continents, she gained a broad perspective of the best cutting-edge sustainable practices and technologies to provide solutions to global issues. During this time, close partnerships were developed with many founders of eco-resorts and communities which expanded her network to include the brightest minds in decentralized currency and economic models, co-governance models, clean and efficient transportation, holistic health care, and experiential education systems that integrate collective individual expression and personal development.Kelly has worked on over 16 sustainable real estate development projects ranging from $5M to $400M in size including eco-smart city plans, sustainable retreat center developments, community and building designs across California, Arizona, Florida, Texas, Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Thailand. She is now working on multiple development projects in the US and Costa Rica and is currently creating a model for regenerative development for many different locations and cultures.