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Karen Meacham

Visiting Fellow, Office of the Chief of Staff

Associated Research Focus:

Demography & Population
Africa

Associated Programs:

CSIS Commission on Smart Power

Expertise:

Project development and implementation in Washington, D.C., and Senegal; management of large organizations; strategic planning

Contact:

202-775-3149
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Karen Meacham is a visiting fellow with the Smart Power project, where she directs Dialogue with America, CSIS’s grassroots initiative to bring an “outside the beltway” perspective to the foreign policy debate. Before joining CSIS, Ms. Meacham was a senior member of Mayor Anthony Williams’s administration in Washington, D.C., first serving as deputy director of the Department of Parks and Recreation and then as deputy administrator of the Office of Mass Transit. From 1995 to 1998, Ms. Meacham served with the U.S. Peace Corps as an agricultural volunteer in Senegal, West Africa. She received her M.P.A. from Columbia University and her B.A. in geography from Vassar College.

 

 

 

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