Emily Keating

Emily is a nonprofit and philanthropic strategist with more than two decades of experience advancing equity-centered initiatives across education, media, and the social sector. As a consultant, she partners with mission-driven organizations to strengthen development infrastructure, clarify strategy, and craft narratives that move funders and communities toward systemic change. At The Way We See, Emily leads development strategy and helps align philanthropic partnerships with broader movements for criminal justice reform and narrative change. Her work is rooted in the belief that storytelling - grounded in data, history, and lived experience - can shift culture and policy alike.

She is also currently consulting for Sing Sing Prison Museum as the Project Director of their youth learning program. The education initiative will use the humanities, oral history archive, primary sources, and on-site experience to guide young people in exploring the crisis of mass incarceration in America and inspire them to imagine and create a more just society.

Previously, Emily served as Director of Development at Life Stories, a division of the Kunhardt Film Foundation and Director of Education at the Jacob Burns Film Center. She is an Associate Adjunct Professor at Pace University. A frequent speaker on education, philanthropy, and the power of story, Emily has presented at forums hosted by the MacArthur Foundation, JPMorgan Philanthropy Center, and The ImPact.