Nora Karena, M.A.
Nora Karena is an antiracist educator and writer with expertise in homelessness, sexual and intimate partner violence, and child welfare. She has more than 20 years of non-prophet experience including direct service, management, executive leadership, and consulting. She also teaches social and behavioral sciences and is a contributing author to a series of DEI-focused sociology textbooks.
Nora has a B.A. from Linfield College, and M.A. in Cultural Studies from the University of Washington, Bothell. Her theoretical work has been an interdisciplinary exploration of white supremacy and allyship through literary criticism, critical pedagogy, community organizing, research and writing. Intersecting with this theoretical space, her professional work focuses on operationalizing antiracist management policy and practices, that prioritize the well-being of constituencies most impacted by systems of oppression.
She identifies as a white, working-class, fem-presenting, cisgender queer woman. Her partner of 20 years, and she have a small menagerie of furred and feathered beasts. She lives in Louisville Kentucky.