Rebekah Starkey Keasling | Director of Learning Networks
As KLC’s director of learning networks, Rebekah Starkey Keasling oversees initiatives related to learning networks, including Kansas Community Leadership Programs, Leadership Transformation Grant recipients, and third-party applications. Her role involves facilitating activities that support the efforts of our communities of practice and engaging and serving our partners to assist KLC in achieving its organizational mission and goals.
Prior to joining the Kansas Leadership Center, Rebekah served most recently as director of community engagement for the City of Hutchinson, a position that deepened her own commitment to civic engagement. Rebekah currently serves as the mayor’s appointee to the City of Wichita Affordable Housing Review Board, and on the board of directors for the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence. Her experience leading from all levels of authority in public, private, and non-profit institutions has instilled a desire to forge connections between those facing shared challenges from diverse perspectives.
Born and raised in Alaska, Rebekah is now at home in Kansas, where she has lived since 2003. Her hobbies are as diverse as her professional interests. Whether singing jazz, alt-rock, or opera, spending time in nature, sewing, nerding out on movies and books, playing disc golf, running (slowly), pouring over peer-reviewed articles, or just spending time with her family, there is no discernable pattern to where she finds joy. Rebekah holds a BA from the University of Northern Colorado and an MPA from the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She lives with her husband and their two children in northeast Wichita.
