Karen Denise King (July 6, 1971 – December 24, 2019)[1] was an African-American mathematics educator, a program director at National Science Foundation, and a 2012 AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer.
Karen Denise King was born on July 6, 1971, in Washington, D.C. She was selected for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Scholars Program at Spelman College as an undergraduate and finished her degree in mathematics magna cum laude in 3 years.
King next attended University of Maryland with a National Science Foundation fellowship and earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics Education in 1997.
[1] King began her career as an assistant professor at San Diego State University in 1997.
In 2012 she was honored as an AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer[4] and served on the writing team that wrote The Mathematical Education of Teachers II.