Ben Kelley

Ben Kelley comes from a family of journalists and writers. After a stint in Japan in U.S. Army intelligence, he remained in Tokyo as a newspaper editor for three years. He returned to the U.S. to work as a news reporter in Washington, D.C., then went into government as a policy wonk and communications manager. From there he moved into auto safety research and consumer advocacy. He's made award-winning documentary films, written extensively on auto defect and other public health issues, and...See more

Ben Kelley comes from a family of journalists and writers. After a stint in Japan in U.S. Army intelligence, he remained in Tokyo as a newspaper editor for three years. He returned to the U.S. to work as a news reporter in Washington, D.C., then went into government as a policy wonk and communications manager. From there he moved into auto safety research and consumer advocacy. He's made award-winning documentary films, written extensively on auto defect and other public health issues, and testified frequently before Congress and the courts. Ben's home is in Pebble Beach, California, where he and two senior cats live a stone's throw from the ocean and just across the street from a patch of the ancient Del Monte Forest. See less