Veronica Keiffer-Lewis Ed.D.

Dr. Veronica Keiffer-Lewis is an internationally sought-after organizational equity and cultural humility specialist with three decades of experience. She holds certifications as a diversity professional, integral coach, and community and workplace conflict mediator.

Veronica brings to her teaching and consulting practice the theories of justice-based leadership, cultural humility, and multicultural education, as well as her practical experience coaching, organizing, facilitating, and teaching. Her focus is on developing cultural humility across the lifespan, peace and equity praxis, equity change management, anti-bias education, oppression transformation, and dialogic healing.

Veronica was the inaugural equity director at De Anza College, setting the tone for equity and social justice, and building the equity office approach and infrastructure. During her time as director, she is credited with leading the development of the college’s equity framework, lens, and rubric, in addition to developing a number of systems approaches to deepening institutional equity. Some of the strategic initiatives she piloted have been adopted by other institutions, such as her equity core team model, community conversations, and cultural humility certificate program. Veronica has a passion for community college and has worked with over 50 colleges and universities within California alone, in addition to various California community college statewide leadership organizations, such as the chancellor’s office, The RP Group, 3CSN, ASCCC, CalWorks, and CCCCS. Other organizations include The City of Palm Springs, Kaiser Permanente, First Five, the San Francisco Department of Public Health, UCSF, Oakland’s Children’s Hospital, and Ontario Public Health. She also works with social justice nonprofits, public health organizations, religious/spiritual groups, and early childhood education professionals.

Veronica continues her research and college teaching, while also coaching equity leaders and change-makers to bring out the best in themselves and their teams through equity-advancing and cultural humility centered initiatives. Veronica is a full-time faculty member, teaching in the International Peace and Conflict Studies Department at De Anza College. Her greatest joy and ongoing inspiration is her family, which includes two beautiful children and a wife, whom she calls best friend.