Kelly Goldsmith

Kelly Goldsmith was a contestant in Survivor: Africa. She placed 9th and was the 1st jury member.

Profile
Born in San Diego, California, Kelly Goldsmith attended high school at La Jolla Country Day School in California. During those four years, Goldsmith served as class vice president, class president and student body vice president. She was also a varsity cheerleader, class homecoming queen and a National Merit Finalist (having scored 1520 on her SAT).

Graduating in 1997, Goldsmith then attended Duke University, where she became a proud member of Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, serving as social chair and rush chair while working towards her degree in Sociology.

Graduating from Duke in 2001, Goldsmith recently started a new job as a behavioral research analyst while she decides where to apply to graduate school. She has previously worked as a research intern for a cosmetic company and a chief researcher for a website company. Her hobbies include lifting weights and crocheting. She also enjoys singing and performing, having won the role of Abigail Williams in the 2000 Duke Drama Play The Crucible. An avid traveler, she has visited over thirty-five countries.

She is a daughter to famed management expert/professor Marshall Goldsmith and Dr. Lyda Goldsmith. She has one brother, Bryan.

Survivor: Africa
Goldsmith started the game in a low profile, being under the radar for most of her time at the Boran. After a shocking tribe shuffle in Day 13, she started to make her move, starting by finding out who among her new tribemates has previous votes. During their first challenge as new tribes, her old Boran comrade Kim Johnson made an "L" hand signal at Kelly, telling her that Lindsey has past votes (in large part of Teresa and Frank's continuing vendetta among their former tribemates for mistreating them). Her strategies though were put on hold when Samburu won the Day 15 Immunity Challenge. But after losing the next one, Kelly accidentally overheard Brandon Quinton talking about Lindsey's past votes, thus confirming Kim J.'s information. At Tribal Council, the vote was split along tribal lines with a 3-3 split vote. When the revote did not help, Lindsey's past votes were taken into account, and was eliminated. They were then merged into the new Moto Maji tribe in Day 20, where Kelly joined the majority to eliminate Clarence, where Lex received another vote, making him furious.

Fuming after receiving the "mystery vote," Lex blamed Kelly for the incident, causing the other ex-Borans to turn on her. Not backing down, she sided with the former Samburus to secure herself. But at Tribal Council, Brandon sided with the Borans, giving Boran the numbers once again and eventually sent Kelly to the Jury in a 5-4 vote.

Post-Survivor
Kelly Goldsmith joined the marketing faculty at the Kellogg School of Management in 2009 and was named a Donald P. Jacobs Scholar. Dr. Goldsmith’s research focuses on consumer decision making, specifically examining how consumers’ active goals and mindsets affect their choices. Prior to joining Kellogg, Dr. Goldsmith obtained her Ph.D., M. Phil. and M.A. from Yale University. Her areas of expertise are Consumer Behavior, Consumer Decision-Making and Marketing Research. She is also an occasional TV personality, doing TV appearances about her researches.

Links
Kelly's Official CBS Profile Kellog School of Management Profile