Karen Anderson
Ex Officio M · Western Nebraska Community College Foundation
Ex Officio M at Western Nebraska Community College Foundation. Listed as an officer, director, or key employee across 2 organizations on the Form 990 record.
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Karen Anderson is the Managing Director of the Social Finance Institute, a platform within the national nonprofit Social Finance, focused on advancing outcomes-driven financing and impact-first investing to improve economic mobility. She brings over 30 years of executive leadership experience across academia, government, the private sector, and nonprofits, consistently bridging rigorous research, practical implementation, and policy impact.
She previously held senior roles at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago and The Hamilton Project at Brookings, where she helped launch initiatives focused on economic policy. Anderson also served in two White Houses, as Chief of Staff of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama Administration and as a Regional Coordinator in the White House Office of Political Affairs during the Clinton Administration.
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- Harvard Kennedy School · MPP
- Agnes Scott College · B.A. in Economics
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