OPEN MINDS Strategy Editor, Karen Sjoblom, brings many years of health care,scientific, medical, and high-tech writing and editing skills to the team. With abackground in community health and journalism, she started in nonprofitcommunications and then spent time learning about various aspects of environmentalremediation, advertising, technology, education, and more, primarily as a freelancer.​

After working with varied clients like American Express, Air Life of Oregon, Blue CrossBlue Shield, Les Turner ALS Foundation, Muscular Dystrophy Association, ProvidenceHealth Care, Scottsdale Institute, Standard Insurance, Thermo Fisher Scientific, andothers, she continues to learn about new technologies and health system/health equityadvancements, and appreciates the opportunity to share such gains to variouspopulations through her writing.​

Karen also has a heart for various societal issues. She cofounded and ran a nonprofitserving single moms and their children in Portland, Oregon, for nine years, and hasvolunteered her time to write curriculum, grants, and marketing collateral for nonprofitsserving refugees, the recovery community, foster kids/families, and many otherscauses.​

Other fun facts: She was born and raised outside of Chicago and has the flatMidwestern A’s to prove it, has one adult child who’s an ESL teacher in Japan, hasplayed piano since she was four (but barely sight-reads music), and lives in a beautifultown in southern Indiana renowned for its architecture. She’s grateful to be part of the OPEN MINDS team.​