At age 14 Pastor Kelly attended the UCC National Youth Event and still remembers it as a pivotal event in her spiritual life, one that her understanding of God and her later call to Christian ministry as a vocation. In 1992 Pastor Kelly earned a Bachelor of Science in Education degree from Ohio University.  Following graduation she bartended at the world’s longest bar on South Bass Island in Lake Erie and taught English in Tokyo, Japan before matriculating at Yale Divinity School, where she earned a Master of Divinity. In 2000 she was ordained and called to serve as Associate Minister of Dover Congregational UCC in Westlake, Ohio. In 2007 Pastor Kelly accepted an opportunity to coordinate the 2008 UCC National Youth Event, the quadrennial gathering that had been pivotal in her own faith as a teenager. She stayed on in the national offices of the United Church of Christ as Interim Minister for Youth and Young Adults, then served as Minister for Leadership Development with Justice and Witness Ministries before her call to Pilgrim Church in 2014.

DiCosimo is also president of the Cleveland Federation of Musicians, working with the Federation, representing musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra, PlayhouseSquare, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Great Lakes Theater, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, several professional arts organizations and venues, and independent singers, songwriters and musicians. He also served as adjunct professor in Choral Conducting at Baldwin-Wallace, and was Music Director and Chancel Choir Conductor at Lakewood Presbyterian Church.

Sokol has also served as a keyboards instructor at Defiance College, Baldwin-Wallace, and Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music.