Karen Freund

Karen Freund is a copy editor and proofreader with a varied background as a translator, legal secretary, office manager, communications manager and cabinet finisher. She possesses a sharp eye for detail and a firm dedication to getting the words just right. A graduate of Middlebury College, Yale University, and the Pushkin Russian Language Institute, she has worked at the US Embassy in Moscow, on the 27th floor of 30 Rock, in the Crown Building (directly across Fifth Avenue from a certain real estate developer’s tower), at a publishing company in Minnesota, and at a small family cabinet shop and a medical society headquarters in Illinois. She has created, formatted, edited and managed corporate magazines, websites, digital newsletters and social media streams. Karen is an editor at The American Independent.