Jackie Keliiaa
Curator / Comedian
Jackie Keliiaa is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor based in Oakland, California. You can find her in the 2021 release, We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy. Jackie has been featured on Comedy Central, Team Coco, Netflix, and Illuminative’s 25 Native American Comedians to Follow.
She wrote for the web series You’re Welcome America and has been featured in a variety of publications including Vulture, Uproxx, Los Angeles Times and KQED among others.
Jackie has opened for Judah Friedlander, Nikki Glaser, and was featured on the First Nations Comedy Experience streaming on Amazon Prime. Jackie produces Good Medicine Comedy, an all-Native comedy show which has raised over $11,000 for charitable causes. Jackie is a regular at Bay Area venues and has performed at San Francisco SketchFest, Punch Line San Francisco and Cobb’s Comedy Club.
Jackie attended undergrad at UC Berkeley, majoring in both Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies and minoring in City and Regional Planning. She has a Masters in Urban Planning from Columbia University and spent a decade working in community and economic development prior to pursuing comedy full time. She is currently working on some very cool projects— she hopes she can share them soon! Jackie enjoys quesabirria tacos, belting out Whitney Houston while driving, and good graphic design.
Photo by Katy Karns.