Name Colleen Kelly
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB No confirmed information is available on the year she was born, but based on her educational timeline (graduating with Masters in 1998) and current status with grown-up daughters, she is likely to be in her early 50s (age as of 2025).
Wedding & Marriage / Single / Husband / Spouse / Partner Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.
Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Born with a great penchant for exploration and meeting new people, Colleen Kelly is well-known as the co-host of the prominent television series on PBS, Family Travel with Colleen Kelly.
- The show Family Travel with Colleen Kelly launched Kelly into stardom & she is now a successful travel consultant having visited more than 25+ countries and 3 continents. The show highlights diverse families – single parents, those navigating disabilities, and all others simply looking to enjoy their vacations together.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Kelly spent many years of her childhood life running around barefooted and traveling around different cities with her parents. She has a sister Catie Keogh.
- Colleen is married to Greg, who is a regional marketing manager for Panera Bread and is Lutheran (while Colleen is Catholic). They attend St. Raymond de Panafort Church in suburban Mount Prospect, northwest of downtown Chicago together. Colleen hopes he will eventually choose to become Catholic himself!
- After many years of marriage, Colleen is now a dynamic mother to her two beautiful daughters Dunavan and Shea (14 and 11, ages as of 2025), and a dependable friend to many.
Early Life :
- Colleen Kelly was born in Chicago, where she stayed with her parents. Her father worked with Hertz car rental company, and her mother was a school teacher.
- Kelly attended St. Thomas the Apostle School in Phoenix, then moved with her family back to Chicago where she attended Mary, Seat of Wisdom School in Park Ridge, Illinois.
- She was endeared to traveling from a young age, mainly due to family vacations she completed with her parents in the family’s station wagon.
- Colleen’s parents were able to imbibe the importance of the Catholic faith into her, right from childhood. Her mother’s deep devotion to Mary shaped her faith, teaching them to pray the rosary and guiding them to stay connected to Mary and Jesus even today.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- For her education, Kelly secured her first degree in Journalism from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. Thereafter, she proceeded to the University of Roosevelt where she obtained a ‘Masters in Integrated Communication and Marketing’ (graduating in 1998). She went to Austria as an exchange student.
- Kelly returned to Chicago after her education to take up a position at the beer company Heineken, as their first female district manager.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- The great idea of Family Travel with Colleen Kelly started from a heartfelt discussion on a flight to Milan, Italy. Kelly and her friend Tricia Fusilero are executive producers of the show. They pitched the idea to the producers after realizing that there was a gap in the market – Parents with children & their difficulties in traveling.
- When she was a young mother, Colleen and her sister had helped launch an award-winning NBC-5 Chicago show – 24/7 City Secrets. The show faced multiple rejections, with one network pitching a sensational reality concept, but Colleen and her sister aimed instead for a family-friendly series that audiences could both enjoy and learn from.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Her favorite travel destinations are Switzerland and Wales.
- Kelly has never visited Japan!
How old are Colleen Kelly’s children now?