Keshia Avant Brown is a Board-Certified Physician Assistant and is licensed to practice medicine in the commonwealth of Virginia. She is currently employed full-time working in the field of Urgent Care & Family Medicine at Velocity Urgent Care where she also serves as the Practice Manager. Keshia is a 2020 graduate of Regent University earning her degree from the School of Business’ Doctoral of Strategic Leadership Program.

 

She is affectionately known as “Dr. Kesh”, and is the founder of the non-profit organization “PurposeHER,” where she mentor's women across the country and has touched the lives of over 2500 women through her yearly women’s conference since starting in 2018. She previously worked and served many patients and families across Hampton Roads in the field of Obstetrics & Gynecology for 4 years.

 

Keshia has a passion for serving others, women in particular and her goal has always been to serve the community as an exemplary role model and to give back through mentoring and educating women and youth. Today, she wears her “White Coat” as a symbol that whatever you believe in your heart, you too should believe that you can have in your hand!

 

She is a member of the illustrious sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. and she serves on the board of commissioners for the Chesapeake Housing and Redevelopment Authority and the YWCA. Dr. Keshia serves alongside her husband James who is the Pastor of The Mount Portsmouth in Portsmouth, VA. They have two sons, James Emmanuel and Jaxon Emory, and a daughter, Kennedy Nicole.