Early Years
Kelly was born in Panama City, Panama of Irish and Italian ancestry, and raised in Port Jefferson Station, Long Island, New York. He graduated from Comsewogue High School in 1987. He attended Boston College and graduated with a degree in communications in 1991; he was president of Boston College's University Chorale. After college, he attained his master's degree in journalism (MSJ), specializing in magazine publishing, from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1993.
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