Kelly Ahn
Associate Dean, Career Design Lab
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKelly Ahn is a workforce development scholar-practitioner and Associate Dean leading Columbia University's Career Design Lab with over a decade of experience designing programs that bridge academic training and professional pathways for thousands of graduate students. She combines organizational change, strategic partnerships, and recruitment technology to scale career services—launching signature initiatives like Columbia 3MT and a PhD Career Pathways program that markedly increased doctoral engagement. Trained as a school psychologist and certified in multiple career assessments, she brings deep applied expertise in counseling, assessment, and leadership development across diverse and international student populations. Her background spans counseling marginalized communities, international education entrepreneurship, and higher-ed operations, giving her a rare mix of frontline student care and institutional strategy. A self-taught coder and QA/automation enthusiast who writes about tech, she retains hands-on technical curiosity alongside her academic leadership. Based in New York, she is currently completing an EdD focused on adult learning and leadership, reinforcing her evidence-based approach to career education.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Fulbright International Educators Fellow, Fulbright International Educators Fellow at Fulbright CommissionsMaster of Education - MEd, Educational Psychology, Master of Education - MEd, Educational Psychology at Teachers College of Columbia UniversityDoctoral Candidate Doctor of Education - EdD, Adult Learning and Leadership, Doctoral Candidate Doctor of Education - EdD, Adult Learning and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Psychology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Psychology at Hamilton College
English, Korean
Github Skills (3)
rails10
llc6
zinc1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KellyAH/convene
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Secure, affordable, private digital spaces for work and play.
Contributions:12 PRs, 29 pushes, 22 branches in 2 years 1 month
secureaffordabletest-kitchenapp-storeoms
KellyAH/ruby_spell
Jan 2017 - Jul 2021
Ruby game to help ruby students recognize object types and memorize common methods
Contributions:17 PRs, 26 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years 6 months
railsrecognizeruby
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