Session Instructor and Albert A. Levin Professor of Public Service, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs and The Center for Nonprofit Policy & Practice, Cleveland State University

Janet Kelly teaches graduate courses in public and nonprofit financial management and accounting. In the non-profit sphere, she specializes in financial administration of smaller nonprofit organizations, including accounting systems, financial reporting, and internal controls. Her research interests include financial accountability and performance budgeting for nonprofit organizations. She recently published Performance Budgeting for State and Local Government with co-author William C. Rivenbark (M.E. Sharpe, 2003) and a series of scholarly articles on performance measurement in Public Administration Review, Urban Affairs Review, the American Review of Public Administration and the Journal of Urban Affairs. She is a member of the American Society for Public Administration, The American Political Science Association, and the Urban Affairs Association. She is also a member of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) and the Government Finance Officer's Association (GFOA) and a regular contributor to Government Finance Review.

She currently holds the Albert A. Levin Chair for Public Service at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University.  The Levin College is ranked second in the nation for graduate programs in city management and urban studies by US News & World Report.

She earned a B.S. in Economics from the College of Charleston, a M.P.A from University of South Carolina, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Wayne State University. She has served as a Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee from 1999-2003, an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Master of Public Administration Program at Clemson University from 1994-1999, and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University from 1991-1994.

Prior to her academic career, she was a budget analyst for the City of Charleston, SC and a fiscal analyst for the South Carolina Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. She divides her time between Cleveland and her family home in Anderson, SC.