Kristen Kelsch

Kristen is a founding member of Ripple Effect who directs partnerships, logistics and internal communications. She is also a licensed architect who has taught undergraduate and graduate architectural design studios as well as introductory representation and upper-division research courses at Louisiana State University’s School of Architecture since she joined the faculty in fall 2010. In addition to teaching, she is the school’s undergraduate coordinator and director of the LSU Architecture Camp, a summer camp for high school students. In 2019, she was awarded the Communication across the Curriculum (CxC) Outstanding Faculty Award by the Office of Academic Affairs for her contributions to teaching communication-intensive courses, advising distinguished communicator candidates, participating in faculty development initiatives, and securing grants to support CxC studios, and publishing CxC-related scholarship.