Keli Dailey

Keli Dailey is an award-winning journalist, performer and educator. She uses her multimedia storytelling skills and grit to advance truth, democracy, liberation and the common good. Dailey currently teaches media classes at the University of San Francisco, Saint Mary’s College of California, and Mills College, where she also leads the communication program. She has held posts at outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, the Cincinnati Enquirer, TIME magazine’s Asia Bureau, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. In 2013, Dailey was awarded a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. Dailey believes in the power of comedy to communicate news. She’s the creator of “Surviving San Francisco,” a series of fact-based comedy shows examining life in America’s most expensive city. She produced, wrote and starred in an original comedy-news webseries for young women called “News Hangover,” supported by First Look Media. Dailey sits on the advisory board of Pilot Media Initiatives, a social enterprise committed to enhancing democracy through political satire.