Kelvy is an artist, facilitator, and author. She is known for her pioneering work on generative scribing, which involves using images and visual tools to represent ideas, conversations, and presentations in real-time. She has worked with a wide range of organizations—including corporations, non-profits, government agencies, and educational institutions—and has extensively delivered global workshops, conferences, and meetings for over 30 years.
Kelvy is a co-founder and senior faculty of the Presencing Institute, where she has been core to the development of its open-source knowledge-base, online community-based programming, u.lab (through MIT and edX, launched in 2015 with over 100K participants to date), and the Visual Presencing Pathway through which she teaches scribing.
Kelvy is also a fine artist, known for her abstract and colorful paintings, which are inspired by the natural world and the interplay between light and color. She lives in Northampton, MA. www.kelvybird.com
