Karen has helped the organization grow from serving 800 young people to more than 16,000 each year. Previous positions: Assistant to the Artistic Director and Outreach Associate at Northlight Theatre (Chicago), Co-director of Redmoon Theatre’s award winning program Dramagirls (Chicago). She sits on the Kennedy Center Any Given Child steering committee, won the “Austin Under 40” Arts and Culture award in 2011, and was a 2012 finalist for the Erns

Patrick is a professional educator and theatre director. Previous positions include: Associate Artistic Director of Young Playwrights’ Theater/YPT (Washington, DC), among others. The After-School Playwriting Program he developed and implemented at YPT won the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from First Lady Michelle Obama in 2010. Patrick has an MFA from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Lindsay Palmer is a professional sculptor, educator, and public artist. She has shown her work nationally and internationally in galleries in Iceland, New York, and throughout Texas. She worked for three years as part of the public art collaborative Austin Green Art, which worked to create public awareness of the environment through public art interventions. She holds an MFA in sculpture from The University of Colorado, Boulder.