Christina Keeton, PhD

Christina Keeton, PhD is the Associate Director for Graduate and Postdoctoral Scholar Coaching and Engagement in the Career Center of the Career Advancement and Engagement division at Vanderbilt University. As Associate Director, she leads a team of dedicated career coaching and employer relations experts charged with providing one-on-one guidance, developing and executing programming and ideating professional development activities that identify values, elucidate interests, and build skills for scholars earning advanced degrees in the humanities, social sciences and STEM disciplines. She began the journey of empowering scholars while obtaining a bachelor’s in biochemistry at Syracuse University and continued this interest while earning her doctorate in biochemistry at Vanderbilt University. She then cultivated experience guiding students navigating advanced degrees as Assistant Director of the Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD) and Co-Director of the Summer Science Academy at Vanderbilt University.