Oh Baby!: Karen Kersting at TEDxRVAWomen

Karen is a doctoral candidate in Counseling Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is an instructor of The Psychology of Women, an undergraduate course at VCU, through which she developed a passion for examining the tough decisions women face when trying to balance career and family. Karen's doctoral dissertation examined one of these issues -- How do women really feel about the ticking of their "biological clocks"? -- with findings relevant to the significant number of women putting off motherhood in their 20s and 30s. Prior to graduate school, Karen worked as a professional journalist at Bloomberg News, National Geographic Channel, and the American Psychological Association's Monitor on Psychology and gradPsych magazines. In her spare time, she swims with the River City Magnolias, a vintage-style water ballet team she founded in 2013.


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