[3][4] During her tenure at CCHD, Kelley co-edited Living the Catholic Social Tradition: Cases and Commentary[2] with Dr. Kathleen Maas Weigert.
[citation needed] Following her tenure at CCHD, Kelley worked for three years at Environmental Resources Trust (ERT), a business unit of the non-profit organization Winrock International dedicated to promoting renewable energy development and climate change mitigation.
There she worked on renewable energy policy and development projects, including a partnership between ERT and Verdant Power.
[citation needed] In the fall of 2004, she took a leave from ERT from to serve as religious outreach director for the Democratic National Committee on the John Kerry campaign.
The book, published in July 2008, reintroduced the concept of the common good into the national dialogue on faith and politics, as both a uniquely Catholic and American principle.