Phoenix, Arizona, United States
About
Keiko Ratcliffe
Founder & CEO, Skye’s the Limit! Foundation
Keiko is the Founder and CEO of Skye’s the Limit! Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing trauma-related loss by strengthening resilience and mental wellness for youth, families, and communities. The foundation’s work combines creativity, neuroscience, and trauma-informed prevention to equip young people with practical tools to cope, connect, and thrive. At the heart of this work is a simple belief: connection is prevention.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Art Education with an emphasis in curriculum development and community engagement, which shapes the design of the organization’s arts-based prevention and youth development programming.
Through Skye’s the Limit! Foundation, Keiko leads the integration of neuroarts-informed practices into youth programming and trauma-informed prevention education. Her work focuses on combining neuroscience with creative expression to support emotional regulation, stress recovery, and belonging—protective factors known to reduce substance use, overdose, and suicide. She is passionate about building trauma-informed community spaces where creativity becomes a pathway to healing and resilience.
This work is rooted in lived experience and created in honor of her daughter, Skye, whose legacy continues to guide the foundation’s mission. Keiko is committed to expanding prevention access in schools, housing communities, and youth-serving spaces; strengthening evaluation frameworks that demonstrate impact; and advancing neuroarts as a practical tool for mental health support.
She is particularly interested in collaboration, research partnerships, public art as healing, and developing scalable models that bring resilience-focused programming to underserved communities.
Keiko has a vision of establishing S.K.Y.E. * L.I.F.E Creative Engagement & Empowerment Center aimed to provide a place for those Seeking Knowledge through Youth Engagement projects and programs for the purpose of Living In Full Empowerment. The idea for the center is intended to honor Skye's legacy by providing a place where youth and young adults can come and not feel alone, have hope, build leadership skills, build peer support, and receive mental health resources for their overall wellbeing.
"My daughter Skye, 03/07/1995 – 09/30/2014, faced incredible challenges with trauma. She died of an overdose at the age of 19 in 2014. Connection is prevention. When young people are given space to create, express, and belong, they build the capacity to move through life’s challenges.” - Keiko Ratcliffe
FELIX MORAN, Art Education and Prevention
CONNIE GULICK, Program Assistant and Office Manager
MORE TO COME ON FELIX AND CONNIE!
THEY HAVE BEEN A BLESSING TO SKYE'S THE LIMIT! FOUNDATION.
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