Karen Werner, Ph.D. is a radio producer & sociologist based in western Massachusetts. Recently, she has been an artist-in-residence in Finland at Kone Foundation's Saari Residence and in Vienna, Austria, at the MuseumsQuartier/Tonspur and at studio das weisse haus. Werner is a 2017-2018 Fellow of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and received a Tending Space Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation from 2014-2016 for artists with a Buddhist practice. Werner’s writings about radio, autoethnography, and the performativity of language have been published in a range of academic journals, and her radio pieces have been broadcast on public and community radio stations around North America, Australia and Europe. She is on the faculty of Goddard College in Vermont. Website: KarenWerner.net