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Kelsey McKee is a little bit of everything, but most recently, she’s a founder. Originally from Atlantic City, NJ, Kelsey made her way to Los Angeles after high school to attend the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.
In 2015, she started a fashion blog called Bells + Whistles, which, seven years later, became the name of her digital strategy and design agency.
Early in her career, Kelsey interned at fashion and creative PR agencies in New York and LA. At these companies, she worked with clients such as Glossier, Jason Wu, Norma Kamali, Smarties, and OK Cupid, just to name a few.
At one point, Kelsey briefly did stand-up comedy, but she doesn’t really like to talk about it.
Today, she’s the founder of GoodThings PHL, an app designed to make it easy to find and engage with your local community.
Jun 27, 2025 • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EDT • Center for DesignPhiladelphia
part of a series on Punk.
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The Center provides Philadelphia with educational programs, exhibitions, and a public forum to explore architecture, urban planning, and design, allowing visitors the opportunity to understand how these disciplines affect us all in our daily lives. Using our city’s distinctive breadth of architecture, pioneering urban design, and manufacturing heritage as the foundation for conversation, we educate the public through talks, exhibitions, publications, hands-on workshops, design competitions, festivals, and children’s programming.
The Navy Yard is a 1,200-acre thriving waterfront community, with 8 million square feet of real estate in a mix of historic buildings and LEED® certified new construction oriented around world-class open space. Since 2000, over $1 billion of public and private funding has been invested into the campus to redevelop the Navy Yard into a business campus and innovation hub, attracting over 150 companies employing more than 15,0000 workers and welcoming residents for the first time since the naval base closed. At full build-out, the Navy Yard will support up 20 million square feet of development, 30,000 people, and over $3 billion of private investment. Get connected with the Navy Yard. Website: navyyard.org Facebook: @TheNavyYard Instagram: @navyyardphila
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CENTER for DESIGN PHILADELPHIA
// Getting to the Center // The Center, located near Philadelphia’s City Hall and just across the street from the Pennsylvania Convention Center, is easily accessible by foot, bike, bus, subway, regional rail, cab, + car. For detailed information on public transit options, check out SEPTA.org.
