🌍 Karen is a strategic communicator with more than 25 years’ experience. She has been working globally with governments, militaries, and organizations. Her recent work brought her to 🇸🇳 Recent Mission (Senegal) where she trained military communications officers in Dakar for 12 weeks. 📌 Communication Principles: 🧩 It’s more than info-sharing—it’s bridge-building across cultures. 🧠 Clarity, consistency, cultural resonance are non-negotiable. 💡 Career & Mentorship Wisdom: ❌ Myth: “Confidence is everything.” 👂 Listen more than you speak; bring your unique perspective. ✈️ Living Abroad & Cultural Immersion: 🍽️ Eat local, enjoy music, traditions, and community pride. 🦁 Once-in-a-lifetime: walked with lions and saw rhinos, zebras, giraffes 🎒 What She Packs: 📖 Brings her Bible for grounding on long assignments. 🙌 Giving Back & Teaching: She is active with National Press Club; leadership in Washington Women in PR. 🎓 Adjunct professor teaching crisis communications to active-duty grads worldwide.
Karen Naumann Blevins, APR, PMP, is a multifaceted, seasoned practitioner with more than 25 years of communication experience. She is an educator, global program manager, industry leader, and published author.
She is an adjunct instructor and course developer in Crisis Communications at West Virginia University, where she instructs active military, earning a graduate degree. Recently, she spearheaded the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental and Climate Justice program’s contractual Communications team for which she developed the national outreach strategy supporting multi-billions of funds that Congress authorized in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The allocation supported climate-improving projects in communities historically excluded from energy infrastructure decisions and on the front lines of climate change.
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