ABOUT

Kadie Kelly

Speaker | Artist | Inner Child Advocate | Composer | Performer | Writer | Educator

Through Documented Healing, Kadie Kelly integrates writing, music, performance, and speaking to explore personal and collective transformation. As a speaker, artist, and advocate for the inner child, she creates spaces where people can reconnect with themselves and uncover new possibilities for expression, healing, and joy. Whether through keynote talks, immersive performances, or intimate compositions, her work is an invitation to introspection, adventure, and authenticity.

Kadie’s creative journey began in childhood, growing up in a large, diverse family outside Detroit, Michigan. She discovered her love for the piano early on and honed her writing as an avid journaler and her public speaking skills in church and as student body president of her high school. She later moved to Provo, Utah, to attend Brigham Young University, where she studied and proselytized in French in the south of France. Eventually, she settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she completed her college education, raised her two sons as a single mother, and built a career at the intersection of creativity, advocacy, and transformation.

Kadie holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Mills College and has dedicated her work to fostering deep inner and societal change. She founded the short-lived Oakland Single Parent’s Network, served as a guest lecturer at Touro University’s Public Health Department, and worked as a policy fellow for San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris. Alongside her advocacy work, she taught piano, composed music, and directed fundraising and events for social justice organizations.

As the founder of the world’s first Inner Child Museum, she brings visibility to the unseen forces shaping our inner lives. Her upcoming collection of ambient solo piano music, Journey to Innocence, will be released in March of 2025.

Explore her work and upcoming events at KadieKelly.com