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Kelly Roberts

Kelly Roberts

Assistant Director, Office for International Services
Fordham University
Moderator

Kelly Roberts is assistant director, Office for International Services at Fordham University, co-leader of the NAFSA United Nations Special Interest Group and also serves as one of NAFSA's NGO representatives at the United Nations as well as Fordham University's. Roberts has been involved with the UN NGO community since 2008. She has presented at the UN, EAIE, AIEA, Model UN and national and regional NAFSA conferences about engaging youth through university partnerships with the United Nations. Roberts has served as secretary and chair of the youth subcommittee for the NGO/UN Department of Global Communications Executive Committee Board for over 6 years. Previously, she was nominated to serve as co-chair; youth subcommittee of the conference planning committee for the annual UN DGC NGO conferences in France, Mexico City, Australia, and Germany. Roberts was recognized and awarded by her peers in fall 2018 for her work co-planning the first International Education Day at the UN. She received her MS in adult education and human resource management from Fordham University.