Meet Kelley

We are so thrilled to have Kelley Gary Khamphouxay join the CleanBirth.org team.  She is a committed advocate for women’s rights in development. She holds an MSc in Gender and Development and a BA in International Relations. A California native, she has lived and worked in Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos and Thailand for nearly two decades. She has provided analysis and training in project effectiveness, vulnerability reduction, and ethnic and gender equity for dozens of International NGOs, UN agencies across Southeast Asia and the Government of the Lao PDR. She is currently an apprentice midwife specializing in out-of-hospital birth and is dedicated to developing and promoting locally sourced solutions for safe motherhood. Fluent in both Lao and Thai languages, she lives in Vientiane, Laos with her husband and three children.