Kelsey Ziser

Senior Editor at Light Reading

Beats: SD-WAN

Kelsey Kusterer Ziser is editor and host of Light Reading's Upskill U website, and covers SD-WAN, IoT, big data analytics, virtualization, smart grid and public cloud for Light Reading.

Kelsey studied journalism and mass communication with a second major of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but her interest in the telecom world started with a PR position at Connect2 Communications. Her drive for communicating the impact of new technology translated into a communications position at the FREEDM Systems Center, a smart grid research lab at N.C. State University. While at FREEDM, Kelsey orchestrated the center's webinar program which crossed multiple college campuses and covered research projects like cybersecurity in the smart grid and the center's smart solid-state transformer.