Vice President, Policy and Planning
Family Planning Advocates of New York State
17 Elk Street
Albany
NYUSA
12207
Email:
karen@fpaofnys.org
Biographical Sketch: Karen Anderson is the vice president of policy and planning at Family Planning Advocates of New York State (FPA). She initiated and directs FPA’s Immigrant Women’s Health Initiative that works to help family planning providers in New York better serve immigrant women. Before coming to FPA, Ms. Anderson lived and worked in Chile for twenty years. She is the founder and former director of Educación Popular en Salud (EPES), a non-profit health training and research center in Chile dedicated to serving and empowering the poor. Ms. Anderson has a MPH from Harvard University, a MEd from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a B.S. in Nursing from St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.