Institution: Martin Luther University College; Karis Disability Services
Position: Cohort 1 Fellow
Keith Dow is a visiting researcher with Martin Luther University College (Waterloo) and serves as pastor and theologian on the Organizational and Spiritual Life team at Karis Disability Services. He has worked in various capacities with people with intellectual disabilities and their support teams over the past eighteen years.
After completing his PhD in caregiving ethics through Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam under the supervision of Hans Reinders (2019), he authored Formed Together: Mystery, Narrative, and Virtue in Christian Caregiving (Baylor, 2021). He is the current president of the Religion & Spirituality Interest Network of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Keith lives in the woods just South of Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) with his family and stereotypically enjoys wearing flannel, making maple syrup, and playing ice hockey.
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