Karen Schoellkopf

Karen Schoellkopf is a product strategist and end-to-end product lead. She’s worked on projects for Samsung, Target, Verizon, Meetup, Spotify, the American Medical Association, and more, and led Product at VoteRunLead (which trains women to run for office). She launched Hire More Women In Tech in 2014 (making the business case for women in leadership positions in tech), and realnames.online in 2016 (about the dangers of "real name" defaults in social platforms). She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and her BA from Binghamton University. She is a Fellow at Sterling Network, whose mission is to enhance economic mobility across NYC, as well as a Fellow / Member of the Good Work Guild, focused on economic security and labour-market transforming technologies.

She has spoken about benefits cliffs and fintech solutions to policy failures at: Ending Hunger in America: A Conversation about Benefit Cliffs, House Committee on Rules (2021); Benefits Cliffs, ECS Forum on Justice and Opportunity (2019, 2020, 2021); Benefits Cliffs w/ a User Centered Lens, CirclesUSA Breakthrough National Conference (2021); Summit on the Economics and Policies of Cliffs in the Social Safety Net and Economic Mobility, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2019); Fintech Fixes to Policy Problems, NYS CDFI Conference (2019); and Unlocking Underserved Markets panel, Ideas42 Behavioral Summit (2018).