Karma Wilson has a passion for health equity of marginalized populations with 10 years of public health in behavioral health – respect to health education, trauma-informed care, and underserved populations including 7 years in violence prevention. In her most recent role as a Community Violence Intervention Project Manager with Heartland Alliance: READI National Center for Safe Communities she trained national partners providing technical assistance on organizational capacity building and community violence prevention initiatives and completing community/organization assessment. Before her role at Heartland, Karma worked with the Chicago Police Department, the Chicago Department of Public Health, and a few Chicago violence prevention non-profit organizations in a programmatic and project management capacity. In her free time, Karma likes to cuddle with her Yorkie and read as she e-published a ‘trauma-informed’ book on Amazon. She received her Bachelor’s in English and Master’s of Public Health with a focus in Health Management and Policy from Benedictine University.