Join Arts & Sciences Career Development for a Career Conversation:
Career Conversation with Karen Cape '88
Technical Director, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Friday, September 8, 2023 from 2:30pm -3:30pm
Virtual via Zoom
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Career Conversations are small group networking sessions, usually limited to a handful of students, designed to offer you the chance to get answers to your most pressing questions about a particular career field. Karen will give an overview of her career path for 10-15 minutes, and then a question and answer session will follow. For this session, students are expected to come prepared with questions. Students can ask questions about Karen's background, skills, experience on the job, and how to enter into the field.
About Karen:
Karen Obel Cape is an Emmy Award-winning Television Director/Technical Director with 30+ years of television experience. Ms. Cape graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences’ College Scholar Program in 1988 with a thesis on American women painters. Although her primary career has been in television broadcasting, she has a long history of working with local, national and international non-profit organizations geared toward improving people’s lives. For V-Day - a global non-profit that presented benefit productions of “The Vagina Monologues” to stop violence against women and girls around the world - Ms. Cape helped found the organization, was the Coordinating Producer for the first event at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC in February 1998, and created and directed the V-Day College Campaign overseeing benefit productions at colleges and universities internationally. For PS 199 - a New York City K-5th grade public elementary school, as a parent volunteer, Ms. Cape was the STEAM Team chairperson, spearheading the successful effort to raise more than $1 million to build a greenhouse learning lab. Her interest in helping people has always included mentoring young people, especially young people interested in broadcasting. She has participated in the Cornell Externship Program for nearly 20 years, hosting and guiding current students and recent alums as they explore the possibility of a broadcasting career.