Karen currently chairs the Reentry Subcommittee of the Essex County Vicinage Advisory Committee on Minority Concerns and is a member of the Legal Representation and Veterans Subcommittees of the group. Karen is a member of the NJSBA Municipal Practice Section, the NJSBA Military Affairs Section and the ECBA Municipal Bench Bar Committee. During law school, Karen was selected as a Haiti Rule of Law delegate where she participated in a new Prison Conditions project in Jeremie, Haiti and she worked on Prison Conditions and Prisoner’s Rights in Cameroon, Africa. Karen is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley and received her law degree from Seton Hall University.