Ms. Keia Dodd is the Assistant Director for Learner Diversity Programs - Graduate Medical Education. In this role, she partners with the GME Office and Program Directors to create Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives for residents and fellows. This includes, but is not limited to, creating pipeline programming for underrepresented in medicine learners, supporting and advising GME trainees through affinity groups and DEI committees, cultural and educational events related to DEI for trainees and academic departments, providing implicit bias and other types of training to GME trainees and their program leadership, evaluating, assessing, and assisting with recruitment and retention activities for residency and fellowship programs.
Ms. Dodd has over a decade of experience working in higher education. She joins OMA from the Department of Medicine, where she was the Program Coordinator for Diversity and HR Initiatives and served as a member of the department’s DEI leadership team. Prior to arriving at Emory, Ms. Dodd worked for the College Advising Corps at the University of Georgia, a college access program dedicated to increasing the number of limited-income, first-generation, and underrepresented high school students who go to college. Her professional interests align with her passion for expanding equity and access for those from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds.
Ms. Dodd earned her Master’s degree in Higher Education Administration from Georgia Southern University, and her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Mercer University. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Educational Leadership from Georgia Southern University, where her research interests include college access, educational equity, and first-generation college students.
