DJ Kelly
Positions
Director, Community Partnerships
Office of Communications and Community Engagement
Contact information
Background
Credentials
Project Management Professional, Project Management Insitute, 2018
Educational Background
Certificate Project Management, Mount Royal University, 2017
Bachelor of Fine Arts Major: Drama, Minor: Film Studies, University of Calgary, 2001
Biography
D.J. Kelly is a Calgary-based community engagement professional and volunteer. He is chair of the PechaKucha Night Calgary speaker series, a City Council-appointed board member of the Greenview Industrial Business Improvement Area, a trustee of Connect Charter School, and the former president of Winston Heights/Mountview Community Association where he currently sits on the Development Review and Finance committees. He is the former chair of Nuit Blanche Calgary, the Calgary Professional Arts Alliance, and the Betty Mitchell Awards. With Calgary Economic Development, D.J. previously sat on the Quebec City Sister City Committee and the Houston Bi-Lateral Agreement Committee.
As a citizen D.J. worked with City Council to initiate the City of Calgary’s Open Data Catalogue, making City data available to the public, and the Calgary Poet Laureate. D.J.’s voice may be familiar because for several years he presented an Alberta-wide column on CBC Radio One’s alberta@noon where he talked about technology advancements and how they can be used to make the average Albertan’s lives better, as well as a weekly column in Metro Calgary, where he discussed Calgary municipal politics.
Projects he’s led have received the United Way of Calgary and Area’s President’s Award, the International Association of Facilitators’ Platinum Impact Award, and the International Association of Public Participation’s Organization of the Year. He holds the Project Management Professional designation, is a recipient of both the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond and Platinum Jubilee Medals, and has been named a Top 40 Under 40 by Avenue Magazine.
Awards
- Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. 2023
- Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Governor General of Canada. 2013
- Top 40 Under 40, Avenue Magazine. 2009
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