Through transdisciplinary collaboration and partnerships, Keathley is supporting MICA's ability to develop innovative programs and projects that respond to emerging issues and model new forms of creative practice. She believes in further exploring challenges facing Baltimore and society at large, and to respond to these conditions in ways that are both insightful and transformative.

Keathley most recently has served as vice provost at Philadelphia University, leading efforts in university-wide academic and curricular initiatives, support services supervision and assessment. From 2008-2010, Keathley held the positions of associate provost and interim provost at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Prior to Otis, from 1997-2008, Keathley was associate professor at Parsons the New School for Design, New York, where she taught project-based courses and served in a number of capacities, including chair of Core Studies, a department that contained the Foundation program and the Integrated Design Curriculum, a self-directed, interdisciplinary B.F.A. degree. Keathley also has five years of experience as a professional design practitioner and has worked with several firms and museums.

Keathley is an experienced educator who brings years of experience developing educational programs in some of MICA's best sister schools. She is a visionary who believes passionately in the power of art and design to meaningfully address many of the issues confronting culture today.

Finally, she is an imaginative leader who understands how to enlist the creativity of her colleagues in joint efforts to respond fully and constructively to the many challenges and opportunities confronting art and design education today. 

Keathley holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in architecture from Harvard University.