Wade Kelly is the assistant director of content development for the Life Span Institute, SWIFT Education Center. Before taking his position with SWIFT, he wore many professional hats, including graphic designer, small business owner, lecturer, equity consultant, writer, and community organizer/collaborator. He believes deeply in the transformative and healing power of building solidarity across marginalized communities and their multitude of identity intersections, and he centers that belief in his work. His personal and professional praxis is steeped in the teachings of Black, queer, and Indigenous feminist writers from the 1960s to the present. He is a 2006 graduate of The University of Kansas.