Education
MSW, University of Connecticut, 2007
BS, University of North Texas, 2006
Overview
Keilah Jacques is social justice and equity pedagogic advocate and anti-oppression systems designer. She works with comminutes, hospital systems, and institutions of education to advance critical consciousness development around racism and health. Keilah facilitates personal and professional reflexive practice development, strategic planning, systems-change management, political advocacy, and community conversations that advance anti-racist focuses capacity building. She believed servant leadership supports the reengineering of social norms and generates the moral resilience needed to identify shared values. She draws from theoretical pedagogies and frameworks such as critical pedagogies’, anti-oppressive frameworks, transformative education, liberation theology, structural competence, social innovation, moral resilience, collective impact, participatory appraisal, and human-centered design. Keilah has accomplished an award-winning course design advisor. Though she works across multiple disciplines, she specializes in social justice, anti-oppression, curriculum, and pedagogy over five years, and was recognized with the Delta Omega in Innovation Public Health Curricular Award, at the 2019 American Public Health Association National Conference.
Honors and Awards
2020-Present Delta Omega, Alpha, Honors Society Faculty Inductee
2019-2020 Delta Omega Award for Innovative Public Health Curriculum: Power Privilege, and
Public Health Methods, American Public Health Association, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvanian
2007-2008 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, Oxford, England
2008-2008 Connecticut Center for Eliminating Disparities Among Latinos, University of
Connecticut at Hartford
2005-2005 Joyce Ann Brown/Popo Gonzalez Scholarship, the University of North Texas at
Denton
2002-2006 Ronald E. McNair Scholar, the University of North Texas at Denton