Main Content
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)
The family doctors
"I held the papers up and just stared at (my dad) and he just started crying."
The family doctors
The small-town dentist
"I hope that in 20 years, I'm meeting many more Wake grads in small towns."
The small-town dentist
The mentor
"It wasn't a windfall. It was hard-earned money. But I got it at a different time than I expected to. So, this was math of the heart."
The mentor
The architect who came home
"I have some pretty deep country roots and just sort of a fascination with what the South is, what North Carolina is..."
The architect who came home
The debater turned lawyer
"I wanted to be helping people, and what better way to help people than to focus on the bedrock of our society, which is family?"
The debater turned lawyer
Timeline: Wake Forest's legacy of opportunity
The North Carolina Gateway to Wake Forest extends a longstanding tradition of financial support for worthy students.
Timeline: Wake Forest's legacy of opportunity
The path Susan Wente walked
A scholarship made an undergraduate degree attainable for Wake Forest’s first woman president, driving her commitment to increase financial aid and its transparency.
The path Susan Wente walked
Becoming a graduate
At Commencement, Wake Forest sent the Class of 2026 off with a challenge to cultivate the sense of belonging they found here.
Becoming a graduate
A Week at Wake
Do you remember that week in the fall semester when everything comes together? We captured it in September.
A Week at Wake