They have two sons - Steven, researcher and lecturer at the University of Waterloo, and Daniel, a musician, married to Ashley Miller, a counsellor.
She is a former member of the board of the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, and past chair of the Canadian Multiculturalism Advisory Committee.
[6] Karen was appointed Chair of the Hate Crimes Community Working Group, reporting to the Government of Ontario in December 2006, and served as Senior Policy Advisor on Diversity and Equity to the Minister of Education for the development and delivery of Ontario’s Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy, that was released in April 2009.
Mock was nominated in September 2009 as the Liberal Party of Canada candidate for Member of Parliament in the Ontario riding of Thornhill, 2011 federal election.
In 2002, she received the Excellence in Race Relations Award from the Human Rights Council of the Ahmadiyya Movement of Islam in Canada, was the 2004 recipient of the Sikh Centennial Foundation Award for Civil Liberties Advocacy, and was named an Eminent Woman of Peace in 2008 by the Department of Peace Initiative and Voices of Women in Ottawa.