[3][4] Keisling is the retired Director of the Center for Public Service, located in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University.
Keisling oversaw more than a dozen separate programs serving local, state, federal government, and international organizations in the U.S. and several countries (including Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, and China).
[5] Keisling was born in Oregon and graduated from Sunset High School, then located in an unincorporated area of Washington County, in 1973.
[5][7] From 2000 to 2009, Keisling was a Senior Vice President for Marketing for the Oregon high tech company CorSource Technology Group, Inc. (formerly Hepieric, Inc.),[8] has remained involved in politics and civic affairs since leaving office, serving on a variety of local, statewide and national committees, commissions and organizations, both inside and outside of government.
[17] He is also a co-founder and board member of the Oregon Public Affairs Network (OPAN), roughly based on the C-SPAN television model.