Kehsi Iman Wilson

Board Member | She/Her

Kehsi Iman Wilson is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of New Disabled South and New Disabled South Rising (C4), the nation’s first regional disability justice organization. Kehsi Iman brings over a decade of experience building and scaling mission driven orgs. She started her first company, Ntoso Nexus, a nonprofit created to connect people of color pursuing post-secondary educational opportunities to mentors, in 2009. She had a first career working at the intersection of social justice, educational equity, and access at a range of colleges and universities for almost a decade. She left higher ed in 2016 after starting the Office of Inclusion Initiatives and Cultural Competence (now the Student Center for Social Justice and Identity) at Vanderbilt University. 

An evangelist for remote work due to its impact on accessibility and equity since the early 2000s, she shifted her focus to business operations and strategy for fully remote orgs and runs a consulting company where she helps individuals and organizations define and align their operations and values and supports orgs as they build equity-centered HR policy. She has a Bachelor of Science in Communications from the University of Florida, a Masters of Education from the University of South Florida, a certificate to Teach English as a Foreign Language from International TEFL Academy, and is a certified Professional of Human Resources. She lives in Tampa, Florida, with her husband and four-year old son.