Kelly Barber

Kelly Barber is the current Head of Operations at Pathrise. Prior to that, they were with Civil Squared where they served as Assistant Director of Programs. Kelly was also with Institute for Humane Studies as On Campus Education Manager.

Kelly has a long history of event management and program design. At Civil Squared, they were responsible for designing both in-person and online events which resulted in 4x programs and 3x subscribers in one year. Kelly also managed 30+ event sponsorships and curated curriculum with academic subject matter experts.

At the Institute for Humane Studies, Kelly managed 40+ partnerships for a $3.2 million grant to educate 40,000 undergraduate students. Kelly also supervised 3 direct reports and trained 30 staff to run 500 events in 3 years. In addition, they partnered with university professors and other leading experts to design cross-disciplinary curriculum and facilitated dozens of invite-only Socratic seminar discussions with top scholars. Despite a 33% shortfall in their annual participation goals, Kelly achieved a 96% subscriber rate through exceptional program and survey design.

Kelly Barber graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Kelly'story from the University of Florida.

They are on a team with and Derrick Mar - Co-Founder & CTO. Kelly Barber reports to Kevin Wu, Co-Founder & CEO.