Ally Kelly is the CEO of Mind Blank, which she founded in 2011. She won the Mental Health Matters Award for Mental Health Promotion (2017) and Mental Health Services Award for Mental Illness Prevention (2019, and was recognised in the Suicide Prevention Australia LiFE Awards in the category of Outstanding Contribution for Queensland (2021). She has a Bachelor of Creative Arts, Performance, Psychology, a Master of Arts, Social Justice, Social Inequality and Humanitarian Affairs and a Higher Degree Research in Program Evaluation.