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Karen Alsen

Managing Director of Education

Karen Alsen is an environmental educator with diverse experience teaching science, sustainability, and arts programming to young people.  She has taught and designed curricula for Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, City Science, Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, Bronx River Alliance, Sustainable Learning, and LeapNYC. Through these organizations, she has worked with dozens of schools all over NYC. Prior to becoming an educator, Karen worked for Scientific American and Nature Publishing Group. In addition to her love of science and the natural world, Karen is a musician and has travelled abroad, performing and teaching workshops on songwriting.  Karen holds an MS in Environmental Education from Antioch University in Keene, NH.