A strong interest in applied human services research and the vital role of community organizations in making a positive difference in the lives of the people they serve led Karen to join Wilder in 1984. Since then, she has worked on a wide variety of program evaluations and assessments, assisting with survey design, interviewing, analysis, and reporting. She has broad experience in coding qualitative data.
Over the years, much of Karen’s work has focused on evaluation of home and community-based services for older adults, including customized living, adult day health programs, and in-home services such as home health, homemaking and chore, and home delivered meals. Karen has also been a part of Wilder’s Minnesota Homeless Study team since 1991 and has assisted with nearly every phase of that project. Recently, Karen has worked on several community needs assessment surveys related to food insecurity and overall community health and wellness.
Karen has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Minnesota.
Outside of work, Karen enjoys hiking, cross-country and downhill skiing, and hanging out with her children and grandchildren.
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