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Keisha Deonarine

Park Community Credit Union

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Park Community Credit Union

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Keisha Deonarine serves as the inaugural Executive Director of Nspire – A Park Community Initiative.

Prior to her position, Keisha served as the inaugural Executive Director of the Passport Foundation focusing on developing programs beyond clinical care that improve social determinants of health for people in under-served and low-income communities throughout Kentucky.

In addition, Keisha was the Senior Community Health Director for the American Heart Association in the Kentucky market. In her role, Keisha worked to create, develop, and initiate strategies in focusing on social determinants of health and drive positive health changes in underserved and low-income populations.

Keisha was also Economic Development Manager at Louisville Forward, focusing on the Lifelong Wellness and Aging Care Strategy. Keisha managed successful economic development projects, including the landing of the Evolent Medicaid Center of Excellence’s headquarters in January 2016, ONCO360’s new Louisville headquarters, and Kindred Healthcare’s $39 million expansion in 2015.

While at Louisville Forward, Keisha located more than $200 million in project investments, worked with over 70 health care start-up companies through expansion and helped bring more than 6,000 jobs to Louisville. Keisha was the lead coordinator of the Louisville Innovation Summit, which focused on aging innovation strategies for over 400 national and international attendees.

Keisha is an Executive Committee and Board member of the Kentucky Science Center, and a Board member of Family Scholar House. Keisha completed Leadership Louisville in 2019 and Leadership Kentucky in 2018. She has completed several local and national leadership programs in her career, including Welcome Academy in 2017, SISGI Leadership Group, Ignite Louisville, Leadership Oldham County, and Wells Fargo Leadership. She has two children and enjoys the ballet, the arts, and spending time with family and friends.