 He was the chairman of the May 2004 and May 2005 New Orleans conferences attended by a number of white nationalists, including Nick Griffin, chair of the British National Party; Jean-Michel Girard, Directeur de cabinet des affaires etrangères of the Front National of France; and Lady Michele Renouf from the UK.Kelso lived at David Duke's headquarters in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, during this time and worked as Duke's assistant.He also organized an April 2004 international revisionist conference in Sacramento attended by attorney Edgar J. Steele, author of "Defensive Racism"; Paul Fromm, chair of the Canadian Association for Free Expression; and April Gaede and her daughters Lamb and Lynx, twin members of the band Prussian Blue.