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10 Facts About Karen Pritzker

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Karen L Pritzker was born on 1958 and is an American documentary film producer, investor, and philanthropist.

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Karen Pritzker worked as an editor at the magazine Working Mother before the family sold it in 1986 and has written for various publications including Success, Seventeen, Kirkus Reviews, and Newsday.

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Karen Pritzker operates a venture fund, LaunchCapital LLC with a core focus in the technology, consumer and medical businesses.

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Karen Pritzker has since executive-produced three documentary film features: The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia, Paper Tigers, and Resilience: The Biology of Stress and The Science of Hope.

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Karen Pritzker serves as president and director of The Seedlings Foundation.

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In 2007, Karen Pritzker donated $1 million to build a new visitor center at the Treblinka concentration camp.

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Karen Pritzker funded a new website named Truth in Advertising, tina.

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Karen Pritzker serves on the board of directors of Grameen America, a nonprofit that offers low-cost microloans to women below the poverty line, as well as Grameen PrimaCare, which provides affordable health care for immigrant women.

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Karen Pritzker co-founded The My Hero Project with Rita Stern Milch and Jeanne Meyers in 1995.

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Karen Pritzker was married to Michael Vlock and has four children.