Karen is part of the Labor Center’s leadership development team. In her work she concentrates on strengthening and developing new ties between the Labor Center and the university’s students, faculty and staff. She runs the successful Labor Summer internship program, and also assists with the Center’s other leadership development programs. Prior to joining the Labor Center, she worked for 10 years at SEIU 616 with homecare workers, where she focused on developing members’ leadership capacity as they undertook various campaigns. She also worked in Washington, D.C. for the National Academy of Sciences as coordinator of the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship and the Pew Health Policy Program. Karen has an M.S.W. in Community Organizing from San Francisco State University.

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