Kerry Conley

Kerry Conley is Senior Director of Communications for Harvard Library, where she leads communications strategy across the University’s library system.

Working across Harvard’s distributed library system, she leads communications strategy spanning editorial priorities and storytelling, media and public affairs, digital experience, leadership communications, and major institutional initiatives. At the heart of her work is connecting people with what Harvard Library makes possible. She brings greater visibility to its people, collections, services, and expertise, showing why they matter and helping people discover what the Library can make possible.

Before joining Harvard Library, Kerry spent more than a decade at Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program, where her work included developing the Gender Action Portal and From Harvard Square to the Oval Office program and translating research on gender and behavioral design for broader audiences.

She holds an M.A. in International Relations from UMass Boston and a B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from Northeastern University.