kelsey wilkins

FREELANCE CREATIVE DIRECTOR + WRITER

Kelsey is an advertising creative who specializes in scriptwriting, 360 campaigns, social media, brand identity + voice & tone guidelines, and charming personal anecdotes to fill the awkward silence while everyone waits for the meeting to start.

She grew up in Portland, Oregon, where she started her career at Intel, then worked at Swift Agency for 6 years until she became an Associate Creative Director at MUH-TAY-ZIK | HOF-FER (VCCP). Now, Kelsey freelances full-time, flexing from copywriting to creative direction. She's worked on a variety of brands and clients like Nike, adidas, Google, DoorDash, Nestle, Starbucks, Albertsons, Apple, Audi, Meta (Facebook), LinkedIn, and more.

Kelsey is a proud pacific islander with diversity, equity, and inclusion values at her core. Her Hawaiian name is 11 letters long, and it translates to a full sentence. She has a sickening amount of hobbies that might make your eyes glaze over if she were to list them all. Most describe her as an empathetic leader (or at least that’s what they say when forced to write performance reviews). She judges people who don't believe in the Oxford comma, she’s heartbroken that AI ruined the em-dash, and she loves using ellipses... Kelsey also thinks it's weird to write bios in third person, yet here we are.