Keilah Jaques

Keilah A. Jacques, LMSW CPC, is an applied behavioral scientist, and an anti-oppression educator. In higher education, she is recognized for her support of social justice competency and skill development through popular education pedagogy. Her work in behavioral science research focuses on building competencies that support long term institutional equity practices. In addition to being an educator and researcher, she is a trained mental health professional, healing-centered coach, and somatic practitioner. Keilah supports organizational development through the advancement of critical consciousness around racism, structural oppression, and embodied health practices and advancing organizational culture change that upholds organizational development shifts in policy, practices, and procedure.

She is the co-editor of Oxford University Press, first of it's kind, practitioners guide, Power, Privilege, and Public Health. She has provided equity-focused program design and evaluation across various sectors such as health, state governance, non-profit, higher education, and technology, in Texas, Connecticut, Maryland, and now Washington DC. In 2023, she started working with SEIU Nurses to support trauma-informed, self-care as a somatic practitioner.