Keva Martin, born and raised in New Orleans, has over a decade of experience providing support and client services to youth and families in the city. Keva brings a wide range of experience and expertise to serving Green Corps students, families, and partners. Throughout her career, Keva has consistently focused on bettering her community and serving others, as she worked in criminal justice, education, recreation, mental and physical, economic stability, parenting, and housing.
Over the last, the last 6 years Keva has been dedicated to working with system-involved youth in New Orleans as a youth advocate at the Orleans’ Juvenile Public Defenders Office and as a Case Manager at the Travis Hill School, where she helped students re-engage with school while detained and upon release. Keva obtained her Bachelors of Social Work and her Masters of Social Work from Southern University of New Orleans. Her life’s work and academic pursuits have been motivated by her unwavering belief that through professional support, passion, and desire one can do anything they set their mind to.