Kelvy Bird is an artist and internationally recognized visual practitioner. She has worked in the field of human development since 1992 with a focus on collaboration, collective intelligence, and systems thinking.

As a lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management, Kelvy is establishing a new body of work around visual sensemaking. As co-founder of the Presencing Institute, she has guided the direction of core tools and methods, and now serves as senior faculty for u-school for Transformation, leading the Visual Practice pathway for learning.

In 2016, she co-edited: Drawn Together through Visual Practice, and in 2018 released Generative Scribing: A Social Art of the 21st Century, establishing key frameworks for the field. She received a BFA and BA from Cornell University, and lives on Nonotuck land near Amherst, MA USA.