Foulston associate Keiteyana Parks’s practice focuses on tax-exempt organizations and healthcare in the firm’s Wichita office. She regularly advises public charities, private foundations, and other non-profit entities across the lifecycle of the entity, including applications for tax-exempt status, compliance, entity governance and structure, grantmaking, and mergers. Additionally, Keiteyana works with both non-profit and for-profit healthcare providers on matters related to regulatory and compliance requirements, including advising clients on HIPAA, EMTALA, Stark Law, and related healthcare statutes, and representing clients before licensure boards.
Keiteyana’s experience with entity formation, preparing and reviewing governing documents, mergers and acquisitions on both the buyer and seller side, and contract negotiation, allows her to counsel clients in a broad range of transactional matters as well as those specific to healthcare law.
Keiteyana received her J.D. from the University of Oklahoma College of Law. During law school, Keiteyana served as assistant executive editor to the American Indian Law Review and as an officer for a number of student organizations. Prior to joining Foulston, Keiteyana gained valuable experience as a legal intern in public, private, and in-house offices working in various areas of law including complex civil litigation, education law, and juvenile public defense. Upon graduating from Kansas State University, where she competed as a track and field student-athlete, Keiteyana was a first-grade teacher for Oklahoma’s largest public school district, Tulsa Public Schools. She served as a team leader and coordinator of staff and student committees and continues to seek opportunities to pursue education equity.
Outside the office, Keiteyana enjoys keeping up with all things sports, spending time with her dog and family, reading, and playing tennis.
Education
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University of Oklahoma College of Law
(J.D., 2023)
American Indian Law Review, Assistant Executive Editor Vol. 48; Dean’s Leadership Fellow; Black Law Student Association; Sports and Entertainment Law Society
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Kansas State University
(B.S. in Psychological Sciences, B.S. in Sociology, cum laude, 2018)
Multicultural Student Ambassador; Positioning Athletes for Lifelong Success; NCAA/BIG 12 Conference Track and Field Student-Athlete
Admissions
- Kansas (2023)
- U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (2023)