Karen Kalish

Karen Kalish is a serial social entrepreneur focused on literacy, closing the opportunity and achievement gaps in low-performing schools, and ending all forms of discrimination, especially racial. She started three nonprofits and a program: Operation Understanding DC in Washington, DC, and Cultural Leadership and HOME WORKS! The Teacher Home Visit Program in St. Louis. The program was Books and Badges in the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. In Seattle she hosts Friendraisers for candidates, issues, and nonprofits; and is supporting a pilot in a Seattle Public Elementary School to show the power of parental engagement. She has met over 400 people in her two+ years here, says yes to everything and is excited to be a new board member of KUOW.