Maura Kelly is a Director, Advisor, Diversity Advocate, and multiple EMMY Award-winning producer. Through her consultancy company, PURPLE MOUNTAIN MEDIA she applies her 20 years of media and broadcasting experience to build program initiatives, immersive events and partnerships. An advocate for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Maura is Senior Advisor and a former Director of LEAP, a women's leadership acceleration program, and an Advisory Group member to “Generation Equality,” a UN Women's initiative. 

 

Her career spans leadership positions in broadcast television at PBS/WNET Group where she built media franchises and helped raise millions for programs and EdTech initiatives – to working with top-tier media companies, such as The Jim Henson Co. and the Tribeca Film Institute to collaborating with Fortune 500 companies, and business and nonprofit organizations. Maura has a Masters in Media Arts from New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) where she was also a lecturer. @maurakellymedia