Keith brings with him a wide range of skills including stakeholder relations, issues management, policy research and analysis, process navigation, and strategic communications – all of which he honed at senior levels of the provincial government and within the academic labour movement.

Keith served in the Alberta Minister of Agriculture and Forestry’s office, as well as an Issues Manager in the Notley government coordinating policy and communications for the ministries of Agriculture and Forestry, Transportation, Municipal Affairs, Infrastructure, and Economic Development and Trade. In addition to his experience in the Government of Alberta, Keith has worked in both central and local campaigns for New Democrats in Alberta and has strong connections with progressive political movements throughout western Canada.

Aside from his political work, Keith has also worked as the chief administrator of an academic labour union and lectures in the Department of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge, as well as supporting community work in Southern Alberta. Over the past few years, he has sat on the Board of the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA), the Lethbridge Animal Welfare Committee, and the Board of the Lethbridge Public Library.

Keith holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Lethbridge, as well as a master’s degree from Carleton University in the same discipline, and lives in South Lethbridge with his daughter and two tuxedo cats Barry and Louise.