Kellen attributes her creativity to her unusually vivid and elaborate dreams she has almost nightly. As a kid, it became a routine to regale her mom with the events of her latest dream every morning on the car ride to school. Even today, she keeps a journal next to her bed to quickly scribble down the interesting tidbits of her dreams to interpret later. (Her sister bought her Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams for her 14th birthday. Since then, it’s become a hobby.) Now she’s just waiting on her subconscious to dream up the next Great American Novel. In the meantime, she’s content with copy.

Kellen spent this past summer in Hong Kong and Prague working on international campaigns for Cathay Pacific Airlines and Kozel Brewery at McCann Erickson. Go ahead; ask Kellen how sick the Hong Kong office was, she’ll gladly gush over it. The work experience section of Kellen’s resume is a hodgepodge of odd jobs involving drinks from bar maid to barista to juice cleanse maker. Maybe some people wouldn’t consider that relevant, but to her, advertising is more about understanding people and how to relate to different groups rather than learning how to work an Excel sheet. These days, she keeps herself busy with the love of her life, her Husky-German Shepard mix named Juneau.