Lori Kelley is the creative director at Foreign Policy and is based in Seattle. She was previously art director at Seattle Business magazine. Before moving west, she was the art director at Politico Magazine after spending four years at the Washington Post Express, first as art director and then as managing editor of news. From 2004 to 2010, she worked at the Virginian-Pilot, helping to craft its redesign before becoming assistant director of presentation. Kelley holds a master’s in English literature from Old Dominion University and a bachelor’s in journalism and English literature from Hastings College.
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A local resident uses a wet towel to fight one front of a large brush fire that started around the mountains overlooking the city center in Cape Town, South Africa, on Jan. 27. (Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images)
Kenyan security forces help people escape after a bomb blast at DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi on Jan. 15. A huge blast followed by a gun battle rocked the upmarfket hotel and office complex, killing at least 21 in an attack claimed by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab Islamist group. KABIR DHANJI/AFP/Getty Images
A Vietnamese woman collects incense sticks in the village of Quang Phu Cau on the outskirts of Hanoi on Jan. 3. In Vietnam's “incense village,” hundreds of workers dye, dry, and whittle down bamboo bark to make the fragrant sticks ahead of the busy lunar new year holiday. MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images
A boat carrying migrants is stranded in the Strait of Gibraltar before being rescued by the Spanish Guardia Civil and the Salvamento Maritimo sea search and rescue agency on Sept. 8. MARCOS MORENO/AFP/Getty Images
People play golf as an ash plume rises in the distance from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Hawaii's Big Island on May 15. Another violent eruption on May 17 sent ash 30,000 feet into the sky, with the U.S. Geological Survey warning that ash could fall as far as Hilo, 30 miles away. MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES
A Maasai warrior jumps to reach a rope during a sporting event dubbed the Maasai Olympics at Kimana, near Kenya's bordertown with Tanzania, on Dec. 15. The event, held every two years since 2012, is an initiative of international conservation groups to offer Maasai warriors an alternative to killing lions as part of their traditional rite of passage. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian woman walks into a room damaged by an Israeli airstrike earlier this week in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 14. A ceasefire held began after the worst escalation between Israel and Gaza militants since a 2014 war, but the situation remained volatile and the deal provoked sharp disagreement within the Israeli government. MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images
A voter observes election counting at the end of the first round of the presidential elections at a polling station in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on Nov. 7. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)
A displaced Yemeni girl walks to class in a makeshift school in the northern district of Abs in Yemen's northwestern Hajjah province on Oct. 28. ESSA AHMED/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinians throw stones and burn tires in response to Israeli forces' intervention as they gather to support the maritime demonstration to break the Gaza blockade by sea with vessels in Gaza City on Oct. 22. This photo of the shirtless protester went viral after its release, drawing comparisons to the iconic French Revolution painting, “Liberty Leading the People.” Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Displaced Yemeni children from the Hodeidah province shelter in a damaged house on Sept. 30 where they have been living with other displaced families in the southwestern Yemeni city of Taez. The conflict has triggered what the U.N. describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with three-quarters of the population, or 22 million people in need of humanitarian aid. (Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP/Getty Images)