Karen Ladley, Ed.D.

Karen Ladley oversees the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism and the Carter Center-led Mental Health Parity Collaborative. Ladley worked as a broadcast journalist for more than a decade in North Carolina, Georgia, and Pennsylvania before working for several community colleges, DeSales University, and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Ladley received a doctorate in transformative education from Kutztown University in 2022. She earned her master of education from UNC Wilmington and her bachelor’s in mass communication from Elizabethtown College.