As a Development Specialist at RMI, Keegan is responsible for processing and acknowledging the many generous donations that fund RMI’s important work, maintenance of donor data, overseeing Development team procurements, conducting research on prospective donors, and generally ensuring the health of Development team data.

Background

At the University of Wisconsin, Keegan was a Language Flagship scholar in the Yoruba language with the National Security Education Program, studying abroad in Ibadan, Nigeria, at the University of Ibadan.

His interest in international affairs and language learning led to a six-year stint at the International School of Denver language and culture immersion school where he was quickly promoted to Assistant Director of Community Giving. He helped raise over $3 million in support of infrastructure improvements, scholarships, and faculty support initiatives and led the Advancement department overhaul of a unified CRM/Donor Database/Student Information System. These, and the creative leveraging of new processes and people, helped him set new high-water marks at the school for conversion of new donors, total overall number of donors, and total annual fund dollars raised.

Parallel to his career, Keegan volunteered as a family support partner with Habitat for Humanity, an education solutions committee member at United Way, a fundraising committee member at Girls Inc of Metro Denver, provided English language and US Citizenship tutoring to East African immigrants, and edited the newsletter for the Family Caregivers Center of Mercy in his hometown of Cedar Rapids, IA.

As a lifelong athlete and outdoor enthusiast, Keegan’s interest in the natural world dovetailed with his passion for international development with RMI’s work. While he is out running or biking in the Front Range of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, he often ponders the great challenge of our time: how we can take what our planet already has and make it all that we will ever need.

Education

BA (double major), African Languages & Literature/International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison