Tribal Nations
Soaring to New Heights

Kelly Berry is an enrolled citizen of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma and has affiliations with the Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Choctaw Nations. He is a second-year doctoral student in the Education Doctorate Program in Educational Leadership at Kansas State University (K-State). His tentative graduation date is May 2024 with a trajectory of faculty at university.
Kelly is employed as the Indigenous Initiatives Research Associate in K-State’s College of Education working alongside faculty and major advisor, Dr. Alex Red Corn. With this position, he is a co-instructor for the newly constructed K-State Indigenous Educational Leadership Graduate Certificate Program, which he served as a design team member. He also serves as adjunct faculty at Upper Iowa University, where he teaches synchronous and asynchronous undergraduate courses: Diversity in the United States & Social Problems.
He has served as adjunct faculty at Cameron University, Comanche Nation College (now suspended), and Bacone College. Undergraduate courses taught include Introductory to Sociology, Social Problems, and Terrorism & Counterterrorism. He also served as course designer for the University of Washington-Tacoma Muckleshoot Tribal Doctoral Program and has participated as a shadow coach for new faculty and yearly faculty evaluator.
He most recently served as faculty (2020-2022) at Riverside Indian School (RIS), a Bureau of Indian Education funded institution, in Anadarko, Oklahoma, where he taught Computer Applications/Social Studies.
Kelly holds an Oklahoma State Department of Education 5-12 Teaching Certificate (US History/OK History/Government/Economics) (2022-2027) and a Kansas State Department of Education 6-12 Teaching Certificate (Social Studies). He also holds an Educational Technology Graduate Certificate (2022) from K-State.