Karen Baker
Founder and President, Boathouse Group, Inc.
Karen R. Baker is the founder and president of the Washington D.C. office of Boathouse Group, a full-service marketing and communications agency. Karen brings 28 years as an award-winning business owner and executive specializing in research, strategic design, and marketing. Karen couples design thinking and design justice to drive broader impact and change the narrative. She is working toward a Doctor of Design at NCSU focused on design research.