Karen Edwards

Karen Edwards is the principal of KME Consulting, LLC, established in 2006, whose clients include First Nations Development Institute, First Nations Oweesta Corporation, National Congress of American Indians, and both the Center for Social Development (CSD) and the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies, at Washington University in St. Louis. Ms. Edwards previously worked for Washington University in St. Louis for over twenty years, where she assisted Dr. Michael Sherraden in founding CSD in 1994, and worked on several research projects related to the effectiveness of IDA and asset-building policies and programs in the United States. While with CSD, Ms. Edwards also established a body of collaborative work between CSD and the Buder Center for American Indian Studies on asset-building research in Native communities. [Source: InsightCCED]