Karen Sonneborn

Karen Sonneborn is Co-founder and CEO of Honored (www.honored.org), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to recognizing, retaining, and inspiring great teachers and to elevating the profession of teaching. Previously, she worked in business development at Warner Bros. in Los Angeles and investment banking at Goldman Sachs in New York.

Mrs. Sonneborn currently serves on the President’s Advisory Council, the Annual Giving Committee, and the Bridge Year Program Committee at Princeton University. She has served on the boards of San Francisco Ballet (Education Committee), East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring, Ambassadors for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, the Los Angeles Zoo, and KCET, Southern California’s largest public television station. While with KCET, she co-founded the award-winning KCET Council for Children and Families.