Mia Keeys is a writer, poet, and speaker on topics involving health equity, Congressional health policy, women’s health, and health innovations/artificial intelligence. She is the Director of Federal Affairs at Hologic, Inc.—the women’s health and innovation company—and was formerly the Chief of Staff and Health Policy Advisor to Congresswoman Robin L. Kelly. Mia also previously served as the inaugural Director of Health Equity Policy & Advocacy of the American Medical Association.

In April 2017, The National Minority Quality Forum recognized Mia as a 40 Under 40 Leader in Minority Health. Mia has been a Kaiser Family Foundation Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholar; a Fellow for the City of Philadelphia in the Deputy Mayor’s Office for Health and Opportunity; an HIV/AIDS researcher in South Africa; and a TedX speaker. Mia was also a U.S. Fulbright Fellow to Indonesia, where she lived and worked in various teaching, public health service, and research capacities for three years, while simultaneously learning the national language, Bahasa Indonesian.

Mia holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Psychology from Cheyney University, and a Master of Arts degree in Medical Sociology from Vanderbilt University, where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow through Meharry Medical College. She is currently a doctoral candidate of The Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University—her dissertation is about the intersection of health equity, policy, and innovation. She is also a creative non-fiction writer, with training from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Mia is originally from Philadelphia, PA and calls Washington, D.C., home. She is mother to one son.