Kelly Ryan

Communications Specialist, The Evaluation and Communications Project at the Center for Congregations

kryan@div.duke.edu

The Rev. Deacon Kelly Ryan works to strengthen the communication capacity of Lilly Endowment grantees in religion through the Evaluation and Communications Project at the Indianapolis Center for Congregations. From 2020 through June 2023, she facilitated a learning community of grantees as the director of the Thriving Congregations Coordination Program. Prior to that, she spent 12 years as senior director of communications for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity, overseeing its online learning resource Faith & Leadership, after working as a communications strategist and newspaper reporter. Kelly is a deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, helping the Bishops’ Office to equip congregations across the diocese in family and children’s ministry and also serving at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Durham. She also serves on the diocese’s reparations and restitution committee and is a catechist in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd program. She has a Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School and a bachelor's degree in journalism and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.