Karen Zill
Secretary, Chair Communications Committee

Karen Zill is an educational media consultant based in Washington, DC. She worked in public television for over twenty years doing educational outreach, first at WNET in New York, then at WETA in Washington, DC. During that time she planned numerous outreach campaigns, wrote activity guides and lesson plans for public television projects, and conducted media literacy workshops for teachers, parents and students - all of which she continues to do as a freelancer.

Karen serves as NAMLE's liaison to the National Forum on Information Literacy, which meets in Washington three times a year. She is a member of Women in Film & Video and a member of the Committee on Women in Engineering, a project of the National Academy of Engineering. Karen holds a Bachelor's degree in child development from Cornell University and a Master's degree in early childhood education from Teacher's College-Columbia University.