
Karen Blumenberg
Karen Blumenberg was born and reared in Indianola, MS, the crown of the Mississippi Delta. Educated in Indianola Public Schools, Karen graduated from Gentry High School in 1968 and matriculated to Mississippi Valley State University that same year. She graduated from MVSU in 1974 with a degree in elementary education and began her career in education.
In 1982, she received her master’s degree in elementary education from MVSU and a master’s degree in administration and supervision from Delta State University in 2000.
For 37 years, Karen has served as teacher, assistant principal, and principal in the Humphreys County and Indianola Public School Districts.
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Karen is not new to MLICCI. In 2012, she served with the Mississippi Low-Income Child-Care Initiative as the technical assistant for the Indianola Promise Community’s Building Educating Sustaining through Training (IPC/BEST) project. The BEST project worked with childcare centers in Indianola to improve and enhance their services by providing resources and technical assistance to help them prepare children for kindergarten.