Keecha Harris is president and CEO of Keecha Harris and Associates, Inc (KHA), a US Small Business Administration 8(a) certified firm. KHA leads organizational development, project management, and evaluation projects for publicly and privately funded efforts. The firm has worked with grantmaking organizations with assets exceeding $340 billion.

Among current efforts, Dr. Harris balances a portfolio that includes environmental, reproductive, economic mobility, and leadership development projects. Clients include the Robert Wood Johnson, AARP, William and Flora Hewlett, Schmidt Family, Bill and Melinda Gates, Open Society, and Energy foundations as well as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Wells Fargo. The firm has also been retained by clients to facilitate power-differentiated stakeholders in processes framed to redress racial inequities.

Dr. Harris is the thought leader and founder of the InDEEP Initiative and the Presidents’ Forum, KHA’s signature leadership development offerings on racial and ethnic equity. Her writing has been published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Quarterly.

She is a distinguished alumna of both Iowa State University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, from which she was awarded each institution’s highest awards.  She serves on the board of directors of Orchid Capital Collective.