Karen Charleson
Assistant Director of Operations| karen.charleson@yale.edu
Karen Charleson brings more than 20 years of experience in program management and operations to The Justice Collaboratory. Over the course of her career, she has worked with a range of organizations, including Reading Crown Court, a judicial facility in Reading, England. After relocating to the United States, she joined Mountain Lake Children’s Residence as an admissions manager, and later Jacobs Engineering where she developed and strengthened operational processes to help organizations meet their goals.
In the U.S Karen has had the opportunity to work in residential treatment and youth rehabilitation, an experience that sparked a lasting passion for the field of criminal justice . She feels privileged to contribute to this work once again and to support efforts that advance more just, humane, and people-centered systems.