Kelly Harnett

President and Founder

Kelly has been a resident of Spearfish since 2015 and has been in the Black Hills since 2011. She is an AVP mortgage originator with BankWest Mortgage, where she uses her decades of experience to help individuals realize their dreams of home ownership and a Nonprofit Consultant with Innovative Nonprofit.

Kelly has founded two local nonprofits: Hobo's Healing Heart and Beautify Spearfish. She thrives on being involved in her community and has served on the boards of Black Hills Regional Ski for Light and the Northern Black Hills Rotary Club. She has been a Spearfish Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassador since 2021.

An animal and wildlife lover, Kelly has worked as a wildlife biologist and a wildland firefighter in Ohio. She has degrees in natural resource management, fish and wildlife management, and fisheries and wildlife conservation and biology. She is working on a Master of Science in Sustainability at Black Hills State University. Her emphasis on native pollinators will benefit her work with Beautify Spearfish. She also volunteers on wildlife studies locally and across the country.

Kelly's love of animals has led her to foster and rehabilitate more than 150 neglected and abused dogs.

Kelly's fur family includes Mater, a German wirehair/golden retriever/German shepherd mix; Golden, a lab-cattle dog mix; and her cats, Kitten, Gideon, and Liam the Lion.

Hobo, the namesake for this organization, was Kelly’s companion and best friend from 2000-2012.