Keli Dailey

Keli Dailey is a nonfiction writer, adjunct professor, comedian, and journalist with experience at the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. A 2014 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, she received a First Look Media fellowship for her 2015 comedy-news web series “News Hangover.” Keli is managing editor of Globus magazine, a 2025–2026 Brown-Handler Writer in Residence at the San Francisco Public Library, and founder of the MenoPower Writing Hour. She teaches at Mills College at Northeastern University and the University of San Francisco.

• Global media & journalism
• Nonfiction writing
• The civic role of comedy

• Democracy
• Press freedom
• Comedy

• Director of Communications, Mills College
• Managing Editor, Globus Journal, University of San Francisco

• UC Berkeley, Master of Journalism, 2005
• University of Texas at Austin, BA in English and Bachelor of Journalism, 1996

• Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mills College at Northeastern University (2019–present)
• Former Head of Communication Program, Mills College (2019-2022)
• Associate Adjunct Professor, Saint Mary’s College of California (2016–present)

• Part-Time Faculty Award, College of Arts & Sciences, University of San Francisco (2025)
• Finalist, Steinbeck Fellows Program (2024–2025)
• John S. Knight Fellow, Stanford University (2013–2014)
• First Look Media Fellow (2014–2015)
• SF Arts Commission Artist Grantee (2018–2019)
• NEA Arts Journalism Fellow (2009)

• "Atonement: What Reparations and Racial Justice Look Like on TV’s Atlanta” essay, Race, Representation, and Satire (Lexington Books)

• "Love Song of the Liberal Gun Owner" essay, Adi Magazine

• "Can comedy save democracy? Yes, and we need more of it" essay, Austin American-Statesman

• "Laughing at power: Why 'TACO' is more than a joke about Donald Trump" essay, San Antonio Express-News