Karen Mason

(she/her)

Co-founder and Executive Director

A seasoned non profit leader, communicator and community collaborator, Karen also served as executive director for Third Space Charity and Kelowna Women's Shelter in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Karen brings 35+ years of career experience in the private, public, and non-profit sectors to her work advocating for survivors of IPV, conducting knowledge translation and mobilization activities, and supporting research, development, and dissemination of promising practices. Mason has training in trauma-informed practice and advanced strangulation prevention, and is a member of the Pink Concussions Partner-Inflicted Brain Injury Task Force, the ENIGMA International Consortium Working Group on Brain Injury in Intimate Partner Violence, the Women's Health Research Cluster, and the Canadian Concussion Network's Advisory Council.