Kimberly R. Kelly is Professor and Chair of Human Development at California State University Long Beach. With over 15 years of experience in education and developmental psychology, Dr. Kelly has made significant contributions to the study of parent-child conversations, informal science learning, and narrative methods using anti-deficit frameworks. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of California Los Angeles and has used and studied story stem methodologies for over a decade.
Dr. Kelly has published numerous articles in prestigious journals, including Infant & Child Development, Science Education and the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, and has presented her work at national and international conferences. Her earlier coauthored work reviewing narrative story stem methodologies received the Distinguished Research Award from the American Educational Research Association Human Development Division. In addition to her research, Dr. Kelly has taught and mentored countless undergraduate students in research, fostering the next generation of scholars and professionals.