Hi! I’m Keisha E. McKenzie.
- Based in the US since 2004
- Researched how the British government made its 2002-2003 case for war in Iraq
- Relied on to think thoroughly, source the best pastries in Maryland, and leave projects better than I found them
Over the last two decades, I’ve combined study and practice in institutional leadership, civic communication, philanthropy, and faith-rooted justice organizing.
I believe that all people have inherent worth and dignity, we deserve a world of connection and flourishing for all, and people of faith have a duty to help make that world real.
Bio
Keisha E. McKenzie, PhD, is a strategist who interprets communication, religion, spirituality, and politics as social change technologies. She has worked in leadership facilitation, communication and development strategy, faith organizing, and management with nonprofit and educational organizations across the US for over sixteen years.
Keisha co-hosted the award-winning PRX podcast Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech (2023-2024). She publishes the newsletter Tomorrow’s Edge and is a contributing author in The Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Technical and Professional Communication (ed. Derek G. Ross; Taylor & Francis, 2025) and Modeling Religious Pluralism (ed. Simran Jeet Singh; Oxford University Press, forthcoming). She’s currently developing the last book in the series Building a Moral Economy (ed. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda; Fortress Press, 2027).
Keisha is a board and finance committee member at the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Freedom and Renewed Heart Ministries; coauthor with Liz Reiner Platt (Law, Rights, and Religion Project, Union Seminary) of the All Faiths and None religious liberty report and discussion deck; and an inaugural Rooted in Resilience Fellow at Faith Matters Network.
Originally from the UK, Keisha completed college in Jamaica and doctoral studies in technical communication and rhetoric at Texas Tech University. Her research addressed the British government’s scientific and public communication about weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the 2003-2011 Iraq war.
Keisha runs McKenzie Consulting Group, a systems strategy, comms, and social good firm.
An Invited Speaker—
- At the 2023 Strickland Symposium, Wake Forest Divinity School, Greensboro, NC.
- At the 2023 Adventist Peace Fellowship Summit, LGBTQ & Adventism: Peace, Truth & Reconciliation.
- At the 2023 Powering Pluralism Summit, Washington, DC.
- At the 2023 BJC Luncheon, Atlanta, GA.
- At the International Religious Liberty Association’s 130th World Congress, Silver Spring, MD, and Washington, DC.
Online
If you’d like to share your work or an opportunity for us to collaborate, please send me a note.