After a few years of fighting traffic in Los Angeles, Kelly found herself thinking back to her blissfully peaceful commute in Sonoma County. She still owned a house in Santa Rosa, a city where she suspected that her children would have space to grow up a little more slowly. When she got wind of the new Guild & Commons project underway at Sonoma Academy, Kelly knew it was time to come back. She was hired as our first ever 课程院长 in 2017.