Hi, I’m Keke Walker.

Iʻm a Black, mixed race, queer, grant strategist, interdisciplinary artist, and community organizer rooted in mutual aid, healing justice, and disability liberation.

I founded Rites + Resources Collective to create space where grant writing could be more than just transactional — where it could be a tool for resourcing our movements, honoring our stories, and building the futures we deserve.

With years of experience as a grant advisor for national and participatory funding bodies, I bring deep insight into what funders look for — and how to meet those expectations without compromising your voice. I'm also the founder of a fiscally sponsored writers project that supports BIPOC sex workers and cultural workers through mutual aid, publishing, and storytelling.

My work lives at the intersection of strategy, care, and creativity. Whether I’m writing grants, building workshops, painting, or organizing — I’m always looking for ways to bring more clarity, dignity, and autonomy to how we tell our stories and fund our work.

My Approach

I am deeply informed by my lived experience as an organizer, artist, disabled person, and former frontline worker in systems that too often devalue our stories and labor. I come to grant writing not just as a strategist, but as someone who has navigated underfunded programs, held crisis lines, moved mutual aid, and advocated in rooms not built for us.

I write from the inside.

At Rites + Resources Collective, I treat grant writing as a tool for reclamation — a way for us to articulate our needs, name our worth, and secure resources on our own terms. I believe in writing that is honest, values-aligned, and connected to community — not just what funders want to hear.

I don't believe in extractive timelines, whitewashed language, or writing that strips our work of complexity. Instead, I bring:

  • Care and consent to every collaboration

  • Strategic clarity to help you feel grounded and confident

  • Narrative power that reflects your lineage, your people, and your purpose

  • Anti-carceral, anti-ableist practices that recognize the full humanity of those doing the work