Karen Johnson was vice president
of social marketing and public affairs at Porter Novelli,
where she had oversight of a number of not-for-profit
and foundation clients including Catholic Charities
and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Karen is a veteran of numerous campaigns and large
scale political management efforts, including the
2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia,
where she served as convention manager for public
liaison, overseeing the logistics and activities of
the convention's 45,000 visitors. Additionally, she
managed U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman John
Kasich’s presidential primary campaign and leadership
political action committee -- Pioneer PAC.
Karen continues to be called to lend her expertise
in the field. In 2006, she worked as grassroots coordinator
and advisor to Ron Saxton’s Gubernatorial campaign
in Oregon. In 2007-2008, she served as a senior advisor
for former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s presidential
bid and continues to be politically active in her
home state of Virginia.
Her campaign work is recognized internationally as
well. Karen frequently travels to Istanbul on behalf
of the International Republican Institute to work
with emerging Iraqi women leaders and serves as a
mentor to women leaders in Jordan and Egypt through
CLIME (Center for Liberty in the Middle East). Most
recently she traveled to Albania to work with a variety
of coalition groups on the topics of advocacy, leadership
and organization.
In recent years Karen has focused her efforts on education-related
organizations. She is on the Board of the Washington
Mathematics Science Technology Public Charter High
School in the District of Columbia, and is an education
advisory board member for BizWorld, a San Francisco-based
non-profit that inspires children to be innovative
leaders through the teaching of business, entrepreneurship
and finance.
Karen's unique political resume earned her a fellowship
at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School
for Communications and a speaker at the Fels Institute
of Government. She is a graduate of Appalachian State
University in North Carolina, where she earned a bachelor's
degree in communications. She is the veteran of over
a half a dozen marathons and has hiked to the summit
of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
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