Karen has more than 20 years of creating high-impact communications packages to shift policy and funding.
As the Director of Global Advocacy and Communications, Karen Sommer Shalett works to strategically amplify the Templeton World Charity Foundation’s thought leadership, advocacy initiatives and grantee impact. She has more than two decades of creating high-impact communications campaigns to influence decision makers, and shift policy and funding.
Prior to her role with TWCF, Karen oversaw a communications and advocacy team leveraging multimedia to support the work of Population Services International and its network of more than 50 country partners. As a journalist and editor, she covered culture and design internationally for nearly 15 years before transitioning to Editor-at-Large for the Aspen Institute. Karen lives in Nassau, Bahamas, where TWCF is located, with her family.
Karen has more than 20 years of creating high-impact communications packages to shift policy and funding.
