Karen Hanrahan

Karen Hanrahan is the former president and CEO of the Glide Foundation, a social justice organization based in San Francisco, California.

[1] Hanrahan is a native of Indianapolis and received her Political Science and Journalism degree at Indiana University in 1992.

She received a Master of Arts in International Politics with a concentration in peace and conflict resolution from American University.

[2] She spent years in war zones and unstable countries that included Afghanistan, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

[3][2] From 2009 to 2015, Hanrahan served as a White House appointee under President Barack Obama, serving in the State Department as the US Coordinator for International Assistance to Afghanistan and Pakistan and most recently as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.