Rev. Keener-Quiat spent her childhood in central Texas where her parents were involved in small businesses, ranching, and politics. After college at the University of Texas she lived and worked in Washington D.C. before returning to her native state where she married and raised a family. In the following years, she became a real estate broker and worked in property management.

In 1982, she entered Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary and moved to Denver in 1984 for Clinical Pastoral Education at Fort Logan Mental Health Center and to complete seminary at The Iliff School of Theology. After seminary, she continued her clinical training at The Children’s Hospital in Denver and became their Staff Chaplain and Pastoral Counselor for the next nine years. She was ordained as an Elder in the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church in 1991.

Rev. Keener-Quiat served on the staff of the Rocky Mountain Conference of The United Methodist Church in 1999 as Director of Appointive Leader Development and as Pastor at First UMC Boulder. In 2004 and 2005, she attended and completed the Dahn Healing School in Sedona, AZ and became an instructor in the Dahn method of yoga and taichi. She has studied early and contemporary uses of therapeutic grade essential oils and facilitates a program on the Healing Oils of the Bible and the anointing technique known as Raindrop Technique, having been trained by Dr. David Stewart, author of the Healing Oils of the Bible and The Chemistry of Essential Oils. Jane has been a Red Cross volunteer and managed a volunteer shelter after Hurricane Katrina.

Having had a keen interest in theological education and personal spiritual development, she is a Diplomate in the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy, a Supervisor in Clinical Pastoral Education, and a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. She has served on the Multiple Institution Review Board for the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and on the Board of Directors for Frazier Meadows Retirement Community in Boulder. In Aspen, she serves on the board for the Aspen Homeless Shelter.

She is married to Andrew L. Quiat. Between them, they are the parents of four children living in Colorado, Massachusetts, and Texas, and two young grandsons.