Deaf-Blind Community Class Coordinator
Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind
Staff Bios
DEAF-BLIND COMMUNITY CLASS, RETREATS, & MENTORING
Karen Park
Deaf-Blind Community Class Coordinator
Karen Park learned about the Lighthouse through attending the Deaf-Blind Retreat at Seabeck and joined the staff in 2006 as the Deaf-Blind Community Class Coordinator. Karen grew up in Pennsylvania and attended the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. She went on to attend the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, NTID in Rochester, New York. After that she moved to Boulder, Colorado Karen earned her BA in Environmental Studies with an emphasis on horticulture from Naropa University in 1994. She left Colorado briefly to do an apprenticeship in Santa Cruz in Ecological Horticulture and Sustainable Food Systems. She has also attended Helen Keller National Center (HKNC) in New York. In 2004 she received an additional degree in Horticultural Therapy and did an internship at The Center for People with Disabilities. During her internship she taught people with various disabilities about gardening, composting and much more.
Karen is the proud mother of two grown daughters and playful grandma of one grandson, Aiden. She has added a new family member, her first guide dog, Lexi. When she is not at the Lighthouse you will find her outside in the garden or tending her large bins of worms that have been her constant companions for some 14 years.
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