Being outside (hiking, biking, paddling, skiing, gardening), reading great literature, crossword puzzles, cooking.
Prior to coming to SPS, Karen worked at Phillips Exeter Academy for 13 years, where her responsibilities included oversight of a broad range of Exeter’s strategic communications and digital platforms. She also served as editor of the school’s quarterly alumni magazine.
Before working in independent schools, Karen dedicated part of her career to nonprofit communications, including freelance writing and serving as editor for AMC Outdoors, the magazine of the Appalachian Mountain Club. She also taught a first-year writing course at the University of New Hampshire while working on her MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing. Her thesis, “Pulp,” is a collection of essays exploring her relationship to the North Country woods where she grew up.