Emily Keating
Emily Keating is a nonprofit and philanthropic strategist with more than two decades of experience advancing equity-centered initiatives across education, media, and the social sector. She brings over 20 years of experience to her role as a consultant, partnering with mission-driven organizations to strengthen impact, clarify strategy, and craft narratives that engage funders and communities toward a common purpose.
Emily currently advises The Way We See, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit advocating for equitable sentencing. Her work focuses on building strategic institutional and individual giving and aligning the organization’s narrative with national movements for criminal justice reform.
Before launching her consulting practice, Emily served as Director of Development and Education at Life Stories, a division of the Kunhardt Film Foundation, supporting a mission to create and distribute documentary films and educational resources about the people and ideas that shape our world. She contributed to the strategic vision of the organization as part of the senior leadership team, cultivating and sustaining contributed income, designing curriculum, and managing national impact campaigns.
Earlier, she spent nearly two decades at the Jacob Burns Film Center, where she was part of the founding staff team and oversaw the creation, implementation, and expansion of education programs that had global influence. The work was grounded in the belief that for students to be empowered today, they must be fluent in the language of image, sound, and story. Emily published and presented on the imperative for a redefinition of literacy for our visual culture. That work continues to connect deeply to her ongoing role at Pace University, where she teaches the courses she designed, Writing Process and Media Production and Literature and Digital Storytelling.
A frequent speaker on the intersection of storytelling, education, and social change, Emily has shared her work with audiences at the MacArthur Foundation, JPMorgan Philanthropy Center, and The ImPact. She holds an M.A. in Humanities Education from New York University and a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia.