She started her career in clinical research at the University of California, San Francisco with the Behavioral Diabetes Research Group. She also provides medical management for patients at a weight loss clinic in San Francisco a few evenings a month, helping these patients to taper off of blood pressure and diabetes medications and avoid surgery. Kelsey has a degree in Human Biology and Anthropological Sciences from Stanford University and completed the Family Nurse Practitioner program at the University of California, San Francisco.