Kevin Allen

Communications Program Manager

Kevin Allen is the communications program manager for the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights in the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.

He has worked at Notre Dame since 2017 and been in his current position since December 2024. He previously served in communications roles on campus at Notre Dame Law School and the Institute for Social Concerns.

From 2004 to 2017, he worked as a journalist at newspapers in Virginia, Michigan, and Indiana, including the South Bend Tribune from 2009 to 2017. His main beats as a newspaper reporter were business and politics. He has covered tech startups and Fortune 500 companies as well as congressional campaigns and the Indiana General Assembly. He was a board member for the Society of Professional Journalists, Indiana Professional Chapter, from 2014 to 2016.

He earned his B.A. in anthropology with a second major in environmental sciences from the University of Notre Dame, and his MBA from Indiana University South Bend.

Contact
Email: kallen@nd.edu