Kelli Dunham

Kelli Dunham is the host of Cared For, a genre-mixing podcast that blends practical tips about healthcare, caregiving, grief and death with storytelling and a deeply warm/on-your-side vibe. Please listen if you’re feeling lonely.

Kelli Dunham is also everyone’s favorite ex-nun nonbinary nurse nerd comic, has appeared on Showtime, the Discovery Channel and the Moth Mainstage and writes the substack Hoping Intentionally. Kelli has a diagrammed sentence tattoo on her left forearm and is not afraid to use it.

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updated: 08/16/2023

From Grace to Grubby

As a zealous born-again teenager in 1980s Florida, tomboy Kelli attends the Lord’s Bootcamp Missionary Training wi...

04/14/2026

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Use The Greenroom

Kelli doesn’t get why performers should need a green room. One day, before doing a show, Kelli is approached by a ...

05/13/2025

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Thinking of You

Her mom became estranged from her after Kelli came out as gay. But when Kelli came to her mom’s aid when she was in ho...

01/17/2023

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Hail Mary What a Place

The last place you’d expect Kelli and her lesbian lover Heather to visit is Lourdes, France, a holy place for Cath...

01/19/2021

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Batter Up!

Kelli thinks the baseball loving/fanny pack wearing woman she’s dating is too vanilla for her, but when the woman uses...

06/21/2012

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