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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)


A Week at Wake: Wednesday

A Week at Wake: Wednesday

A Week at Wake: Thursday

A Week at Wake: Thursday

A Week at Wake: Friday

A Week at Wake: Friday

A Week at Wake: Saturday

A Week at Wake: Saturday

A Week at Wake: Hit the Bricks

A Week at Wake: Hit the Bricks

Devilish Delights

Ed Southern (’94) has woven together new versions of frightening tales that many North Carolinians first heard around the campfire.
Devilish Delights

Fair Ribbons

With inspiration from pop icons, Erin Greene (MA ’23) takes on the Carolina Classic Fair’s decorating challenge.
Fair Ribbons

An Alumni Guide to Outdoor Adventures

Unplug, de-stress and let time slow down, whether it's by spearfishing or skydiving.
An Alumni Guide to Outdoor Adventures

How We Are Nurtured by Nature

Four faculty members and a staff psychologist discuss the myriad physical, emotional and spiritual benefits of being outdoors, even when the rambles come in small doses.
How We Are Nurtured by Nature

Teaching lessons and touching lives

Teacher of the Year Kristin Salsberry ('99) builds community in her third-grade classroom and inspires her students to bloom.
Teaching lessons and touching lives

Camel City and More

Learning about the history of labor, racial conflict, folk music, advertising and Wake Forest — all through the lens of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Camel City and More

Heading back to school

Teacher of the Year Cristofer Wiley ('03, MAEd '04) hopes students “understand their agency in their own outcomes, … empathize with people unlike themselves … and do the right thing whenever they can.”
Heading back to school