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Kelly Greene (’91)

Kelly Greene (’91) joined Wake Forest Magazine as managing editor in 2023. Before that, she was senior director of executive communications for TIAA and a director of marketing for BlackRock in New York. In her 25 years as a journalist, Greene was a staff writer and columnist at The Wall Street Journal, where she contributed to the Journal’s Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and co-authored a New York Times bestselling book about retirement planning. She was a Carswell Scholar at Wake Forest with majors in History with Honors and Politics.

Stories by Kelly Greene ('91)

From bugs and birds to drones and DNA

Harold Greeney (’93) took an untraditional path to build a research station in Ecuador — and helped win a $5 million prize for accelerating our learning about the rainforest.
From bugs and birds to drones and DNA

Turning the Tables on Teaching

In the internet’s early days, when professors needed to get up to speed on computers, and do it fast, student mentors saved the day — with funding from a secretive billionaire.
Turning the Tables on Teaching

Running for Freedom

Claire O’Brien (’11) and her sisters have long lamented the plight of women in Afghanistan — and they organized a run this fall to help.
Running for Freedom

Around the world on points

How an intrepid alumni couple travels in luxury on a shoestring.
Around the world on points

A skeptic’s take on tech

In a new book, Stuart Whatley (’07) argues that we put too much faith in finding new technology to fix problems we could tackle with the tools we have already.
A skeptic’s take on tech

Bringing Home Bronze

WNBA star Dearica Hamby ('15) is the first Wake Forest woman athlete to win an Olympic medal.
Bringing Home Bronze

Betting on the future

Abby Merk (’22) is turning poker into a career
Betting on the future

Creating a wellspring of leadership

Karin Kohlenstein Hurt (’89) turns fees from leadership training into clean water in Cambodia.
Creating a wellspring of leadership

Bringing It Home

Abrea Armstrong (MSM ’16) is tapping her wide-ranging experience to build awareness and appreciation of Winston-Salem’s Black history and culture.
Bringing It Home

An unexpected turn toward Venice

Dennis Romano (’73) wound up at Casa Artom in 1972 as his Plan B — and has spent the rest of his life digging into the history of Venice.
An unexpected turn toward Venice

Plugging into Pro Humanitate Days

Wake Forest Magazine Managing Editor Kelly Greene (’91), back in Winston-Salem after 30 years, experiences a “new” tradition for the first time.
Plugging into Pro Humanitate Days

Weaving Hope

How Mark Dirks (’83) made the connection between a beautiful woven basket and fundraising to build preschools in rural Rwanda
Weaving Hope