Sweet and hardworking, altruistic and loving. She is the definition of selfless and the embodiment of maternal resilience.

 Listen as this Urbana-born woman breaks free from a traumatic childhood by seeking refuge at a woman's shelter near her neighborhood, prioritizing work over a higher education, eventually getting straight A's and building a career in respiratory therapy, finding love on the early iterations of online dating, enduring more miscarriages than she can count, carrying and delivering a child with a "death sentence," describing how this child changed the trajectory of her life, fostering dozens of children and adopting those that needed her to. Kelley decided to use a room in her home for good instead of a shrine. Now, she is running for the mayor of Clinton in an effort to further the spread the good! 

Emily Harrington, here! Mom, wife, retired communications liaison and host of the HyperLocal(s) Podcast. Each week I bring you a pod where townies and transplants share their tales of tears and triumphs, losses and wins. In an effort to provide a way for those that don’t want a public podcast, but still have a story to tell friends and family, I’ve created, In Retrospect: A HyperLocal(s) Project, a private podcast. Visit hyperlocalscu.com/in-retrospect

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