Keegan Kautzky 2010 - Iowa State University Alumni Association

Keegan Kautzky 2010

Keegan Kautzky

BA Political Science ’04    
Des Moines, Iowa

When it comes to creatively engaging communities and rallying others around the idea that education, ethics, and inspiration can indeed make the world a better place, Keegan Kautzky is a visionary and leader. Both before and since graduating from Iowa State, Kautzky has made it his life’s work to help find answers to the world’s most frightening questions of famine, disease, and poverty.

Kautzky currently works as the director of national program development and outreach for the World Food Prize Foundation, where he oversees the national expansion of the Foundation’s youth and educational programs. He also continues to serve as the president of Pages of Promise, a non-profit organization he founded while an ISU student to provide textbooks and reading materials to needy students in sub-Saharan Africa.

A 2005 Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar, Kautzky is an active member of the Rotary Club of Greater Des Moines and the Rotary Club of Sandown, South Africa. While a graduate student at South Africa’s University of Witwatersrand, Kautzky walked 1,200 miles across South Africa to raise awareness about AIDS and money to support South African children orphaned by the disease. In 2007, he was named a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International.

Kautzky is a member of the OneIowa LGBT Advocacy Organization, the Community Food Security Coalition, the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences Advisory Board, the Public Health Association of South Africa, Variety – the Children’s Charity, and the ISU LGBT Alumni Association. He earned his M.A. in development studies in 2008 and a master’s of public health in 2009 from the University of Witwatersrand.

He is an ISU Alumni Association annual member.
 

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