Meet the Instructor
Karen Wolf
Karen Wolf, FAICP, is an affiliate instructor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. She recently retired as a senior policy analyst with King County, Washington, where she spent more than 30 years working on regional land use projects and helping implement the Washington State Growth Management Act, including serving as project manager for the comprehensive plan and for the countrywide planning policies. Her interests include efforts to curb sprawl and focus growth in urban areas while preserving environmentally sensitive rural areas and resource lands, the application of social justice in regional planning and advocacy for walkable communities. In 2016, she was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners. She served 8 years as an elected member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) Commission and is now the AICP President-elect. Wolf holds a master's degree in urban planning from the University of Washington.