Religious Roots of a Moral Economy
Spring 2027

 Spring 2027

Keisha E. McKenzie, PhD, is a strategist who interprets communication, religion, spirituality, and politics as social change technologies. She has worked with faith leaders, congregations, and faith-based, nonprofit, and leadership development organizations on communication and development strategy, faith-based organizing, research, facilitation, and management for over 25 years. Keisha recently co-hosted the award-winning audio show Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech as part of PRX’s Big Questions Project (2023-2024), and publishes the independent newsletter On Tomorrow's Edge. 

Dr. McKenzie is a board member of the Baptist Joint Committee (Religious Liberty Council) and Renewed Heart Ministries, member of the Aspen Institute Religion and Society Program’s Powering Pluralism Network, and an inaugural Rooted in Resilience fellow at Faith Matters Network. She advises Spectrum Magazine/Adventist Forums, and has presented by invitation to associations from the Society for Technical Communication to the International Religious Liberty Association’s Meeting of Experts. Raised in the UK and Jamaica, her education spans English, law, political science, technical communication and rhetoric, and systems thinking. 

Dr. McKenzie brings tremendously creative, multidisciplinary perspectives to the role religious faith beyond the academy plays in building a world of connection and flourishing for all people and all creation. She regularly helps clergy and other religious leaders to collaborate with engaged lay and secular people on common concerns from gender and racial justice to democratic culture and climate change. She believes healthy religions and spiritualities can help us steward our collective intelligence and participates with Adventist, Quaker, and multifaith spiritual communities.