Karen Stout
Director of the Institute for Leadership / College of Humanities and Social Sciences – Communication Studies
About
- Hometown: Kent, Washington
- Education: B.A. in Communication Studies (University of Puget Sound), M.A. in Communication Studies (University of Montana), Ph.D. in Communication Studies (University of Utah)
- Research/Teaching Interests: Organizational communications and leadership – specifically, marginalization and exclusion in the workplace, challenges in recruiting and retaining underrepresented faculty in higher education, and (most recently) women leaders in Mongolia
- Hobbies/Interests: Spending time with family (especially watching movies and playing video games), reading and writing, crafting (especially making off the hook birthday cakes with my kiddos, quilting and sewing for Days for Girls)
- Quote: “When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we may never see will benefit from our action, even as we enjoy the gifts sent to us from a donor upstream.” – Maya Angelou