Keith Plummer

Policy | Education | Media | Research | Inclusion | Consulting

Keith Plummer is the Executive Director of Illuminate Consulting, LLC and the Director of Research & Learning at Feminuity. Keith embraces a global and intersectional perspective in their Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) work. Keith practices compelling compassion in their approach, synthesizing storytelling, coaching, interactive exercises, illustrative data, media, design thinking, and comprehensive policy analysis to bring about a more equitable workplace and world.

Keith believes workplaces succeed when policies, cultures, programs, and leadership teams value differences and create opportunities for team members to creatively infuse their differences across daily operations.

Keith holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies from the College of the Holy Cross. While at Holy Cross, Keith ushered in policy changes making it one of the first Catholic universities in the United States to provide gender-inclusive housing accommodations. Keith then completed their Master’s in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Oxford where they explored different ways select U.S. jurisdictions recognized chosen family in workplace leaves and care entitlements. In addition to these academic qualifications, Keith is a senior certified Human Resources (HR) professional.

Keith has a longstanding passion for furthering LGBTQIA2+ inclusion. They spent over a year conducting research and international outreach for the Digital Transgender Archive, the first online repository of transgender history. Afterward, they worked as an associate at Out & Equal, a nonprofit dedicated to global LGBTQIA2+ workplace inclusion headquartered in San Francisco, California, where they helped create resources, facilitate training, and plan events for companies and organizations across the Fortune 500, government, and the globe.

As a queer activist, professional, and scholar, one of Keith’s major goals is to replace reductive and binary thinking with the empathy and complexity embodied in the human experience.

Keith is a white, American, physically non-disabled, spiritual, neurodivergent, non-binary, and queer person. Outside work, Keith enjoys travel, television, fashion, memoir, hiking, theater, late-night philosophy, community activism, adding to their Duolingo streak, and quality time with friends.

Keith has been featured in the Daily Beast, Girlboss, VITA Daily, Well + Good, Curve Magazine, The Globe & Mail, and news from American Historical Association (AHA).