Brenna Kelly is a reporter, fill-in anchor, and one-woman band at FOX 12 Oregon, who shoots, produces and edits her own stories. In the last year, Brenna has covered national headlines such as the downtown Portland riots, Black Lives Matter protests, Oregon’s historic wildfires and COVID-19 in Washington and Oregon.
Brenna began her career in Bangor, Maine, at WABI. During her time there, Brenna covered two presidential candidates during the 2016 election, an in-depth series on police officers that train service dogs for veterans living with severe PTSD, the state’s many winter Nor’easters which dumped up to two feet of snow or more on Maine towns, and the beautiful “Vacationland” summers, which included lobster races.
In March of 2017, Brenna was honored for her dedication to multi-media journalism with a scholarship from the Darrell Barton Foundation to attend the week-long NPPA News Video Workshop in Norman, Oklahoma.
Brenna was born and raised in San Diego, California and graduated from Washington State University (#GoCougs!) in 2015 where she studied Broadcast Journalism at The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication and joined student-run Cable 8 Productions. While in college, she attended a backpack journalism trip in Cuba where she profiled the nation’s pride and joy — baseball.
In her free time, Brenna loves to explore Portland’s food and coffee scene, and take adventures with her fiancé and adopted Rottweiler pup.