Kelly Goldsmith
PMP Network Presents
Kelly Goldsmith, known for her appearance on Survivor Africa, joins the show. She reflects on her time as a contestant and shares insights into her life before and after the reality television experience. Goldsmith also touches on her career as a behavioral research analyst.
Kelly Goldsmith
About Kelly Goldsmith
Kelly Goldsmith is a marketing researcher and professor who appeared as a contestant on Survivor: Africa in 2001. She later worked as a casting director for Survivor: Vanuatu and built an academic career specializing in consumer behavior and decision-making under scarcity. She holds the E. Bronson Ingram Chair in Marketing at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management.
In this interview
- Recalls being a varsity cheerleader and homecoming queen in high school
- Describes working in behavioral research after college as something she loved
- Mentions fellow contestant Kim Powers talking about traffic during the show
- Says she moved back to Southern California after Survivor Africa
“It was a great time of my life.”— Kelly Goldsmith, in this interview
Since this interview
Goldsmith advanced to become Faculty Director of the Hoogland Undergraduate Business Program and Ingram Scholars Program at Vanderbilt. She delivered a TEDxNashville talk in 2019 and participated in Entertainment Weekly's Survivor Quarantine Questionnaire series in 2020, reflecting on her reality television experience two decades later.
