Our Authors

Mitch Kelly has worked in military intelligence, federal technology, academic science, biotech, and enterprise software over a career spanning nearly four decades. He served in a U.S. Army Special Forces unit as a Russian linguist and intelligence analyst, led federal IT operations as site lead at FDIC headquarters, earned a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study bioinformatics at the University of Michigan, and built clinical data infrastructure as CTO of BioViva Sciences, a gene therapy company. He currently leads M&M Kelly, an AI transformation advisory firm.

His books draw on that range of experience. Centrifuge examines how AI reveals what organizations actually are. Last Old Man applies similar scrutiny to scientific institutions.

Kelly holds a BS in Biology and a BS in Chemistry from Florida International University, an MS in Bioinformatics from the University of Michigan, and a third-degree black belt in Aikikai style Aikido from Aikido Hombu Dojo, Tokyo. He speaks English, Spanish, and Russian and currently lives in North Carolina while based in New England.

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Amanda Kelly has spent more than a decade working as a flight attendant for major U.S. carriers, and has built a career in an industry that treats its crew as interchangeable and their health as someone else’s problem. In 2020, she stopped waiting for someone else to tell her what the job was doing to her body and started finding out for herself.

Amanda is co-founder of M&M Kelly LLC. She is an entrepreneur whose through line is the same one that runs through everything she does: the refusal to accept institutional silence as a substitute for the truth.

Amanda has a B.A. in Theater Arts from The University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Editor of The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli.

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