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As a Research Associate for The Center for Health Design, Ms. Keller works closely with the Director of Research to develop Pebble Project partners' research agendas and to communicate research efforts. She is also involved in other research projects and provides educational consulting on research topics.

Before joining The Center, Ms. Keller worked as a Design Researcher at Kahler Slater Architects in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she advanced and improved systems for the firm's health care benchmarking and client satisfaction programs. She also co-led a research study on sound in a medical-surgical unit, collaborated on a 24-bed surgery unit comparison study, and facilitated evidence-based design workshops and various topic charrettes. She has co-authored articles on research projects, award entries, and proposal considerations.

Ms. Keller holds a Master's Degree in Architecture from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Her thesis focused on integrating architecture, research, and health care. Prior to completing her M.Arch she received her Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Landscape Architecture from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She has also studied at the University of Colorado-Boulder in Environmental Design with an ecological design emphasis and at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in fine arts. She participated in a landscape design workshop at the Palace of Versailles in France in 1998 and was a student design participant in the CALA port cities program, studying in Portugal, Spain, and Italy, in 2003.

While completing her studies, Ms. Keller facilitated architecture discussions at area high schools in Colorado and Minnesota and was actively engaged in Habitat for Humanity and neighborhood revitalization programs.