kAREN SCHORY

Karen SchoryKaren Schory is a professor in and the initiator of the interactive media program at Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas. During her tenure at JCCC, Karen has received the JCCC Distinguished Service Award six times, most recently in 2005, and in 1997 received the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Faculty Achievement Award. Karen has presented papers at several national conferences, has served as the president of the JCCC Faculty Association, and was appointed as art education delegate to Egypt, Israel and Turkey through the Citizen Ambassador Program, People to People International. Karen holds a master of fine arts in printmaking and photography from Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; a bachelor of fine arts in communication design from Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania; and in 1992 returned to RIT to do postgraduate studies in computer graphics, earning an advanced graduate certificate in interactive media.