Mia Keeys has been a champion for health equity at the nexus of policy and medical innovation for over a decade. Mia is Director of Global Health and Innovation at Hologic, Inc., the women’s health and medical innovations company. Formerly, she served as Policy Director of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust and Chief of Staff to Congresswoman Robin L. Kelly (IL-02), with whom she wrote the first comprehensive maternal health policy in Congressional history, the MOMMAs Act. She was also the inaugural Director of Health Equity Policy and Advocacy of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Center for Health Equity. Previously, Mia has also 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; and an HIV/AIDS researcher in Johannesburg through loveLife South Africa. Mia is a recipient of the prestigious U.S. Fulbright Fellowship. She was selected to serve in Indonesia, where she ultimately worked on education and public health initiatives with youth and their families for three years, while also learning the national language. The National Minority Quality Forum recognizes Mia as a 40 Under 40 Leader in Minority Health. She is also a published creative non-fiction writer, who uses her written voice to uplift hard issues, based on evidenced health and social science research, and policy. Her work has been recognized by the National Academy of Medicine, which featured Mia's children’s book on health equity—titled Cole Blue, Full of Valor—in their 2017 national exhibit, "Visualizing Health Equity." She also co-wrote a book with health leaders-- her work is titled, "The Critical Discussion of Race and Racism toward Achieving Equity in Health Policy". As a highly engaging speaker across myriad platforms, Mia gave a TEDx Talk, titled “A Racial Imagination Quotient”. Mia holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Psychology from Cheyney University, where she was Ms. Cheyney University, and a Keystone Honors Academy student. She also holds 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. Mia is currently a doctoral candidate of The Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University—her dissertation is about health equity, policy, and artificial intelligence (AI). She has creative non-fiction writer training from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Mia is originally from Philadelphia, PA yet calls Washington, D.C., home, where she serves as a Commissioner for Women. She is mother to one son