Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment

February 23, 2021

Taylor R. Keen

Taylor Keen is a full-time instructor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Creighton University in the Heider College of Business Administration. Keen is also the Founder of Sacred Seed, a non-profit organization whose mission is to propagate tribal seed sovereignty, battle for sacred tribal geography, and foster cultural revitalization among tribal peoples. Keen holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. and M.P.A. from Harvard University, where he served as a Fellow in the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. Keen has served as a trustee of the Nebraska State Historical Society; board member of Humanities Nebraska; and Chairman of the Blackbird Bend Corporation, the Omaha Nation of Nebraska and Iowa’s Economic Development Corporation.