Karen Gross is a Gloucester MA and Washington DC based educator, author and artist. Her work focuses on student success across the educational landscape and the impact of trauma on learning and psychosocial development.  She currently is a continuing education instructor at the Rutgers School of Social Work and sits on the Advisory Council at the Center for Minority Serving Institutions at Rutgers Graduate School of Education.  Previously, she served for 8 years as the President of Southern Vermont College and as senior policy advisor to the US Department of Education during the Obama Administration. In addition to writing award winning adult books (including Breakaway Learners and Trauma Doesn’t Stop at the School Door and her coauthored forthcoming book in September 2024 titled Mending Education), she is the author of a children’s book series titled Lady Lucy’s Quest, several publications of which have been translated into Spanish.  She was a law professor for 2 plus decades.

For more information, visit her website at www.karengrosseducation.com