James Felton Keith is an award winning Mechanical Engineer, Labor Economist, and Serial Entrepreneur. Most recently, he Founded InclusionScore, a venture backed InsurTech and lectured on Inclusion Insurance at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business. As an enterprising international relations leader, he established the first international diversity & inclusion standard under ISO-30415:2021. This effectively reshaped commercial insurance underwriting to incentivize organizations across 163 nations to be culturally inclusive by connecting their employment insurance to an "inclusion score".
Via the Keith Institute, James has authored and edited multiple books including, Inclusionism, his bio-political philosophy which is at the forefront of International Relations and Diplomacy. As an organizer, his Data Unions redefined the labor movement and people’s personal-data as the natural-resource driving all corporate productivity. He co-founded the Ethics of Personal Data Collection series at Anthem Press and wrote the book "Data Is Labor". He and his institutions have either written or consulted on all of the Western World’s seminal cyber policy during the 2010s including Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
JFK has founded multiple companies across the Non-Profit & Tech sectors. His expertise is in the ethnography of technology, or the study of the culture of tech. Over the past 20 years between 5 continents, he has been obsessing about economic inclusion, and how to get equity in the hands of the people who have increasingly less, while the world becomes more productive from their data's input.
Working between government and business he regularly says “it’s necessary to have the mind of a CEO and the heart of a Social Worker to solve real people's problems”. His career transitioned to public life after starting LGBT Chamber of Commerce and "Pride Nights" at all four Big Box American sports franchises: NBA, NHL, MLB, & NFL. James has been appointed to the cabinet of Elected Officials, taken over for and advised CEOs, Academics, Diplomats, and Non-profiteers. James is an elected member of the New York Democratic Committee and is a frequent keynote at global venues like the United Nations, Future Tech Congress, Data Protection World Forum, and the World Pride Human Rights Forum to name a few.
Meet JFK
A 21st Century
Progressive Leader
James Felton Keith is an Engineer, Economist, Entrepreneur, Professor, Activist, and Author who has been working for the people of New York's 13th District for two decades. He has dedicated his life to solving for belonging through deliberate acts on equity and inclusion.
My Philosophy is
Inclusionism
My core philosophy is called inclusionism and it has three tenets:
1) We have intrinsic value.
2) We derive it from each other.
3) We are owed equity from that value.
I like to say that "Individuals are at their best when they identify with a community and communities are only at their best when they identify all of their individuals."
Inclusionism
Versus The Isms
Capitalism - understood as an economic (E) system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by private owners.
Socialism - understood as a political and economic (PE) system where the means of production and distribution should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Inclusionism - understood as a political economic social and technological (PEST) system in which the means of production are distributed through private individual ownership stakes in productive communities, where labor is tied to lives (including life’s data), and regulated by the community as a whole.
