Karen Oliver

Karen Oliver was formerly the operations director at the Pulitzer Center.

It was a passion for global affairs and effective nonprofit management that brought Karen Oliver to the Pulitzer Center in 2017. She provided administrative support to the team.

After a childhood spent in various countries in Southeast Asia, Oliver lived and worked in England, Ukraine, Côte d'Ivoire, Pakistan, and India before returning to the greater Washington, D.C., area in 2011. She previously worked at Sister Cities International as its director of finance and administration and at the nonprofit industry consultants Orr Associates Inc. as a senior associate director on its nonprofit management services team. 

After graduating from Swarthmore College with a degree in engineering, Oliver worked as a sales engineer selling electrical apparatus. Her master's of business administration degree from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA focused on finance and operations. She subsequently worked as a management consultant in England and the United States, and as a financial analyst and manager for several Fortune 500 companies and family-owned businesses.