Keegan Clements-Housser Ph.D. ’26

Keegan Clements-Housser is a Ph.D. candidate in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. He has served in a variety of Graduate Student Government roles, most recently as director of operations in 2024-25, before becoming president.

He earned his M.S. in strategic communication from the University of Oregon Portland and spent a decade as a journalist, media analyst and consultant in Portland.

Clements-Housser was a research assistant at Urbanism Next, a University of Oregon-based research center focused on investigating the impacts of automation and e-commerce on urban planning and design. He was also project manager at Gather, an Agora Journalism Center-based project and platform to support community-minded journalists and other engagement professionals.