Jim Key

Jim Key works with the media to help promote public understanding of the groundbreaking research conducted at USC Dornsife and connects reporters with the hundreds of subject matter experts in the university’s more than 30 academic programs.

Before joining USC Dornsife in 2017, Jim was chief marketing officer of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the world’s largest LGBT organization. He also served stints at Edelman Public Relations, as a vice president on the Health team, and as director of communications at Vaxgen, the first company to advance an AIDS vaccine through phase III clinical trials.

Jim earned a B.A. in business administration with an emphasis in marketing from California State University, Fullerton and is a graduate of the U.S. Department of Defense Information School, where he was trained as a print journalist and served in that capacity in the Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve.