Karen Singer, The Associated’s Chair of Women’s Engagement and Philanthropy describes herself as the most stereotypical Jewish Baltimorean. “I lived most of my life in Baltimore and for the past 33 years, have lived within a half mile from my parents who lived in the house I grew up in,” she says.
A Pikesville High School and Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania graduate, Karen didn’t truly experience what it meant to be part of a minority until she attended law school at the University of Virginia. It was there, and in her career as a real estate attorney, that she realized she might be one of the first Jew or one of a few Jews some people had met. “I knew I needed to set an example.”
And Karen has certainly been doing that ever since. Here are nine things to know about this mother of two.
