Religious Roots of a Moral Economy: Ancient Wisdoms Re-Formed

 Fall 2026

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 in 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, and publishes the independent newsletter On Tomorrow's Edge. 

Dr. McKenzie is a member of the Baptist Joint Committee’s Religious Liberty Council and the Aspen Institute Religion and Society Program’s Powering Pluralism Network, and an inaugural Rooted in Resilience fellow at Faith Matters Network. She advises Renewed Heart Ministries and 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 of religious faith beyond the academy in building a world of connection and flourishing for all people and all creation. She regularly helps experts, mostly 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 participates with Adventist, Quaker, multifaith, and other spiritual communities, and believes healthy religions and spiritualities can help us steward our collective intelligence.