Karen Blessen

Co-founder and past President

Karen is an award winning freelance artist and writer who was the first graphic artist to be named a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. She traveled to Africa as a member of the HIV/AIDS Leadership Council of the international relief organization Save the Children, and has worked on varied projects, including art and design for a railway station and adjacent park in Dallas and acting as a confetti engineer during the milennium celebrations in Times Square. Peace One Day, a children's book published by G.P.Putnam's Sons, in which Karen collaborated with Jeremy Gilley, founder of World Peace Day, will be released in August 2005. Karen lives in Dallas with her husband, two cats and two chow chows. To learn more about Karen Blessen's work, go to www.karenblessen.com.

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