"I am a part of all that I have met/Yet all experience is an arch where through/gleams the unraveled world whose margin fades/forever and forever as I move"
-excerpt from Alfred Tennyson's "Ulysses"
Kari is the grants and outcomes manager for a nonprofit organization in the Twin Cities specializing in early childhood education, early intervention services for children, and life-phase services for those with enduring needs.
In the past 10 years she has traveled to over 20 countries, engaging in interfaith dialogue with Buddhists, Taoists, and Chinese Christians in China, studying in Cyprus under one of the leading scholars in Greek Orthodox Christianity, and serving as a hospital chaplain and pastoral intern in Oxford, England.
Kari has a Master of Divinity from Luther Seminary and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science from Augsburg College.
As a writer and former theologian, Kari has a passion for myth - the stories that frame our endeavors to live purposive, meaningful lives.