(Former) ANRF Board of Directors
Program Officer
State of New Jersey

Kelly Rouba-Boyd has served several roles for the ANRF including as a member of the Board of Directors, where she served on the Executive Committee and a  national spokesperson. Since the age of 2, Rouba-Boyd has lived with rheumatoid arthritis, navigating the challenges of the chronic disease, becoming an advocate for people with disabilities both in a volunteer capacity and in her career with the State of New Jersey as a Program Officer.

Kelly has persevered in her role as advocate, was Ms. Wheelchair New Jersey in December 2006, was named Mrs. Mercer County (New Jersey) in 2016 and in 2019, participated in New York’s Fashion Week for Tumble and Tipsy, a pop culture clothing brand of designer’s Michael Kuluva, who also lives with rheumatoid arthritis.

“I am committed to finding a cure for the 300,000 youth in America with juvenile arthritis,” says Kelly, “and research is the key. Juvenile arthritis robs our youth of their childhood – people need to know that arthritis is not only a disease that afflicts you as you age. It is our goal at ANRF to educate America about the devastating effects of arthritis on young people, too.”

Rouba-Boyd supports ANRF in many including through her generosity, and her friends generosity, as each year she holds a successful Facebook birthday fundraiser to benefit the organization and arthritis and related autoimmune disease research.