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Show -based organization that would publish a magazine aimed at changing women. cu l ture towards the Utah of at ti tudes tradi tional Dependent upon advertising for working capi tal, network advertisers reluctant to trust a market they doubted existed. wer After the 1980 census revealed that well over half of all Utah women worked outside the home, the network advertising base began to grow steadily, and in addition to running the business, Karen was the edi tor of network for 10 Her edi torials and years. monthly speeches over the years, stimulated productive dialogue on basic questions of fairness and positive soc{al development. Rather than telling readers what to think, network was designed to provoke new ways of thinking, and prodded readers to see life from a fresh point of view. the Throughout the network years Karen was active in community affairs, serving as chair of the Graduate School of Social Wok Advisory Council, chair of the Governor's Conference on Integrating Women 1990 the into the Workforce, co-chair with Scott Matheson of Democratic Policy Commission. She also served on the Utah advisory boards of US West, the Salt Lake/Tooele Private Industry Council, Uni ted Way, the U. of U. Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, Project 2000, the Coalition for utah's Future, Planned Parenthood, the Children's Center, and the Westminster College utah the of Board of Trustees. She was a founding member Association of Women Business Owners and was active in women's networks that worked toward economic parity for the many women. awards for her service to the Information Network's Most Admired of Women Woman Communication's in Women National award, Achievement, Pathfinder for the Women's Committee of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, Women in Business Advocate for u.S. Small and the Utah Business and Professional Business Administration, Women's Woman of Achievement award. Professionally, Karen received Assoc. of many first and second place writing awards from the utah Professional Journalists for her editorials and articles. Over the years she received community including the many Women she accepted a position as director of development the with relations College and Graduate School In 1990 she was elected to Business at the university of Utah. Utah State Senate, where she worked to translate her concerns economic development, and a qual human services, In 1988, community education, environment into sound public policy. and of the for i ty In 1992, Karen ran successfully for the 2nd District Congressional She is the second woman in history to be elected to that high seat. office from Utah. ,21 |
