Keely Badger, Founder
IMPACT PRODUCER | MARKETING DIRECTOR | PHILANTHROPY EXECUTIVE
Keely Badger is an international human rights advocate, philanthropy director and media executive dedicated to advancing human freedom through social and environmental justice. With 15+ years of experience working across the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, her unique expertise champions durable solutions for underrepresented voices, communities and causes. Keely works with leading organizations and changemakers to shift power across geographies and issues, from institutions to the communities and movements that they serve.
About Keely
Keely founded 360 MEDIA Consulting in 2016 as a woman-led, full-circle digital marketing agency for storytellers, changemakers, & brands working on the frontlines of social impact and innovation. Her high performance multimedia advocacy campaigns have attracted influential clients such as The Sundance Institute, Human Rights Watch, The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, Deratany & Kosner, KPJR Films, and over 50 award-winning independent films. Her clients have presented their initiatives across the globe to audiences large and small, from the White House to the United Nations, to Tribal Communities across the Americas and Australia.
Keely served as Executive Director of MOZAIK Philanthropy (2014-2024), a national foundation committed to democratizing philanthropy. Under her stewardship, the foundation funded over 500 grassroots organizations and artists through $12M in philanthropic support, grantmaking at the intersection of arts, education, media, gender justice and environmental movements. Over the past decade, Keely also worked to align the foundation’s assets with its mission through the development of an ESG-D investment policy, prioritizing fiduciary responsibility on issues of climate change, gender inequality, and structural racism.
In the legal advocacy space, Keely actively represents the rights of victims through international delegations to the United Nations (UN), including legal strategy, media strategy and speech writing for the American Indian Movement (AIM-West).
Her Oxford University legal dissertation on the forced sterilization of Native American women established U.S. government culpability for Crimes Against Humanity under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and led to the first-ever global study on the forced sterilization of Indigenous women (Resolution 50/51).
Previously, Keely served as an Associate of Development and Global Initiatives at Human Rights Watch (HRW), documenting and exposing human rights abuses in over 90 countries around the world. Keely holds an MSt. in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford (2017), an M.A. in Globalization Studies from Dartmouth College (2014), and B.A. in Cultural Anthropology & Political Science from University of San Diego (2011). She holds executive education certifications in the “Art of Leadership” from the Rockwood Institute (2019), “Circular Economies & Sustainability Strategies” from Cambridge University (2022), and “Women in Leadership: Increasing Diversity and Inclusion” from the University of Oxford (2024).
Keely currently serves as senior advisor to the American Indian Movement (AIM-West), and the Gaden Phodrang Foundation of the 14th Dalai Lama. She sits on the Board of Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA), Cinema Without Borders Foundation, and the Forbes Nonprofit Council.