Karen Jungblut

Biography

Karen Jungblut, Director of Global Initiatives, oversees and manages a global portfolio of partnerships for the USC Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California. She has been in charge of expanding the existing Visual History Archive of 50,000 Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies, with video testimonies of survivors of genocides and crimes against humanity. She spearheaded the acquisition and collection of testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the Cambodian Genocide, Armenian Genocide, Guatemalan Genocide, and the Nanjing Massacre, including the documentation of more current events of mass violence. With the Shoah Foundation since 1996, Karen has led an international and multilingual staff to successfully index the existing archive, as well as headed the production and piloting of USC Shoah Foundation’s program New Dimensions in Testimony, a collection of interactive biographies that enable people to have conversations with pre-recorded video images of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses to genocide.