Karen Christensen
Encyclopedia
Karen Christensen is a U.S. academic publisher, journalist, and author who cofounded Berkshire Publishing Group
in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1998, after working in London at Blackwell Scientific Publications and Faber & Faber. She is the owner and CEO of Berkshire Publishing.
Christensen was the senior editor of the International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports (Macmillan) and Encyclopedia of Community (Sage), and is the author of several of popular environmental handbooks and a children's picture book. Her books have been translated into French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai.
In 1990-1, Christensen was a speaker on women's issues for the UK Green Party and a trustee of the Environmental Design Association as well as a founding member of the Women's Environmental Network. She has served on the board of the Software and Information Industry Association
(SIIA) Content Division, as a research associate at the Society for New Communications Research, and was a member of the Berkshire Hills Regional School Committee. She is a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations
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Berkshire Publishing Group
Berkshire Publishing Group was founded in 1995 by publisher and author Karen Christensen and anthropologist David Levinson as Berkshire Reference Works, an academic reference book producer, developing encyclopedias for Scribners, Routledge, Sage, Macmillan, H.W. Wilson, and ABC-CLIO. In 2000 the...
in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1998, after working in London at Blackwell Scientific Publications and Faber & Faber. She is the owner and CEO of Berkshire Publishing.
Christensen was the senior editor of the International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports (Macmillan) and Encyclopedia of Community (Sage), and is the author of several of popular environmental handbooks and a children's picture book. Her books have been translated into French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai.
In 1990-1, Christensen was a speaker on women's issues for the UK Green Party and a trustee of the Environmental Design Association as well as a founding member of the Women's Environmental Network. She has served on the board of the Software and Information Industry Association
Software and Information Industry Association
The Software & Information Industry Association is a United States based software trade association. The organization lobbies United States policy makers as well as conducting surveys and research and many conferences and webcasts....
(SIIA) Content Division, as a research associate at the Society for New Communications Research, and was a member of the Berkshire Hills Regional School Committee. She is a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations
National Committee on United States-China Relations
The National Committee on United States China Relations is a nonprofit organization that encourages understanding and cooperation between the United States and Greater China in the belief that sound and productive Sino-American relations serve vital American and world interests.-Mission:For more...
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External links
- Libraryjournal.com, Interview in Library Journal, "It’s The Content, Stupid!," October 2008.
- Publishersweekly.com, Interview in Publishers Weekly, "Berkshire Publishing Goes to China," July 2008.
- Books.guardian.co.uk, Literary memoir in The Guardian Review, "Dear Mrs. Eliot,” January 2005.
- Google.com Essay in Upgrade magazine, "True Believers and Naysayers: Exploring the World of Social Media," January 2007.
- Washingtonpost.com, Interview in Washington Post, "Among the Few Chiefs Who Blog,” September 2006.