Keli Goff is an Emmy-nominated multi-platform producer, playwright, journalist and screenwriter. Recent highlights from her eclectic career include interviewing politicians like Rep. Adam Schiff and Amb. Nikki Haley, for The Hollywood Reporter, serving as an Artist-in-Residence at Yaddo in 2023, writing a campaign celebrating extraordinary women for fashion house Anne Klein, and the play The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls, which has been produced at theaters around the country. 

Goff is also a leading collector of historically significant fashion and literary memorabilia, with pieces from her collection now represented in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Fashion Institute of Technology and The Texas Fashion Collection. In 2026 the Houston Museum of African American Culture announced that Goff would be the subject of its first ever fashion exhibition, "Collecting in Color: Highlights from the Keli Goff Collection," running from October to December 2026. 

As a journalist, Keli’s work has appeared in some of the world’s leading publications, including the magazines Time, Cosmopolitan and Essence, and the web editions of The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Elle, Vogue, Glamour and New York Magazine among others. She has also served as a columnist for The Daily Beast, and as a contributor to The Washington Post blog She the People, The Huffington Post and the online magazine The Root. She was also a long-time contributor to various NPR affiliates, most notably as a guest host for KCRW’s Left, Right & Center. In 2019, she was nominated for two Emmy Awards for her work as a producer on the Netflix film Reversing Roe, a documentary chronicling the history of America’s political and legal battles over abortion.

After receiving an Emerging Writers Group fellowship with the Public Theater of New York, Keli transitioned to writing for theater, film and television. She was recently a writer and Co-Executive Producer on Taylor Sheridan's Mayor of Kingstown, following her stint on And Just Like That, the reboot of Sex and the City, on which Keli also worked as a writer and producer. Other television credits include Joe vs. Carole (a dramatization of the Tiger King saga), Twenties, and Black Lightning, the CW series based on the DC Comics superhero. Before Black Lightning, she served on the writing staff of the critically acclaimed drama Being Mary Jane, winning a 2016 NAACP Image Award for her work on the episode "Sparrow."

Inspired by her hobby as a collector of vintage clothing, in 2025, Goff completed her studies with the Appraisers Association of America. Her private collection, featuring pieces by legendary African American designers like Ann Lowe and Patrick Kelly, as well as trailblazing female designers like Ann Fogarty and Isabel Toledo, has been profiled in Forbes, Town & Country and The Hollywood Reporter. Her pieces have appeared in various exhibitions, including Pratt Institute's "Black Dress II," exhibit in 2025, but "Collecting in Color," marks the first major institutional exhibition devoted to Goff's collection.

Born and raised in Texas, Keli now resides in Manhattan. She holds a B.A. from New York University and a Master’s degree in Strategic Communications from Columbia University.

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