Our Board Members

With the growing need of mental health resources, Kelly believes the handpan can aid many by creating an environment where they can heal themselves by playing, listening, and/or offering to play the handpan to other people who are in need.  She offers the handpan skill and drive to facilitate healing.

Kelly joined the Virginia Army National Guard at the age of 19 years of age later transitioning to the Army Reserves.  She served a total of 22 years in the Army National Guard and the Army Reserves.  This made her more disciplined and adaptable. While in the military, she had many leadership roles and attended multiple leadership courses. She oversaw supply, physical fitness programs, to being the executive officer of a company. She participated in many humanitarian missions and post deployment exercises.  During these years, She studied nursing, eventually becoming a nurse practitioner working in various environments from outpatient clinic to inpatient hospital.  She has studied handpan and music since 2019, sound healing through non-traditional instruments, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and meditation. In the last year, she provided multiple sound healing events, coproduced local non-profit festivals, and coproduced a women’s handpan gathering.

She is currently employed as a Nurse Practitioner at McGuire Medical Center, Richmond, VA, and the Founder and a Board Member of The Healing Pan Project. She is also the founder of the Virginia Handpan Community. She is one of the two education Board Members for the Richmond Virginia Region of the Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners

 She is married, a mother of 2 sons, and a grandmother of 2.  She loves playing the handpan, meditation, walking, yoga, cuddling with her husband and pets, and enjoys traveling. Most of all she enjoys sharing the handpan with the world and helping others.