Kara cultivates the innovation, partnerships, and vision for Precinct 4 and Precinct4Forward.

She has over a decade of public policy, communications, and program management experience, having worked as the toxics program director for the US Public Interest Research Group and the operations director for Bayou City Strategies.

Most recently, she served as the senior policy advisor for Infrastructure for Precinct 4. Her policy papers have been featured in The Hill, the New York Times, CBS This Morning, and the Houston Chronicle. She has a public policy degree from Oklahoma State University and a JD from the University of California at Berkeley.