Kelly Vedi

Senior Director Policy, College Board

Kelly Vedi leads CTE policy at the College Board, where she supports the organization’s growing presence in career education.

She brings a unique combination of experiences from her career including building a workforce intermediary from the ground up as Director of Education and Workforce Development at the San Jose Chamber of Commerce. During that time, she completed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Talent Pipeline Management Academy, developing expertise in demand-driven workforce strategies. She later worked at New America on the Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship (PAYA), supporting practitioners nationwide to launch and scale high school apprenticeships while advancing supportive policy. Kelly attended the Harvard Kennedy School on a Teach For America scholarship, earning a Master’s in Public Policy, and is a proud alumna of the University of Florida.