Kelsey Grady is a communications, public relations, and marketing professional currently living in the Bay Area with 20 years of communications experience.Kelsey Grady serves as Nextdoor's Chief Global Communications Officer, overseeing corporate, product, consumer, B2B, and internal communications strategies. She worked at Nextdoor from 2011 to 2017 in various communications functions, including Global Head of Communications, where she led efforts to build the company's communications strategy from the ground up. Between 2017 to 2024, Kelsey founded a communications consultancy specializing in consumer tech and venture communications. Kelsey graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Mass Communications. Kelsey is involved in her local community and schools, advises several early stage tech companies, raising her two children, and serves on the board of a pediatric brain cancer foundation.