Meet the Speaker

Victoria O’Keefe, Ph.D. is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Dr. O’Keefe is the Mathuram Santosham Endowed Chair in Native American Health at Johns Hopkins University. She is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of International Health (Social and Behavioral Interventions Program), an Associate Director at the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. Dr. O’Keefe’s community-based participatory research with Indigenous communities focuses on strengths-based and culturally-informed suicide prevention, mental health promotion, and wellness.

Dr. O’Keefe received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Oklahoma State University and completed her clinical internship at the Puget Sound VA Health Care System – Seattle Division, both in 2016. In 2020, Dr. O’Keefe was honored with a Cherokee Nation Community Leadership Individual Award by her Tribal Nation.