Karen Kalish

On Monday’s St. Louis on the Air, St. Louis Public Radio reporter Jeremy D. Goodwin led a discussion about a local program that pays teachers in…

St. Louis native and self-identified “serial social entrepreneur” Karen Kalish founded HOMEWORKS! The Teacher Home Visit Program in 2007. Kalish was…

Positive relationships between teachers, students and parents lead to success. That’s the idea behind Home Works’ teacher home visit program.Teachers in…

After an uneventful police ride-along, Karen Kalish had an idea. She wanted to match police officers with young students who struggle with reading. For…

Kenyun Robinson, 16, a sophomore at Roosevelt High School in the St. Louis Public Schools, has a desk and bookshelves at home. But he knows that many…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 25, 2013 - “The house is a goldmine of information,” said Karen Kalish, founder of Home Works, a…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 20, 2013 - Mary Houlihan spent 26 years crunching numbers at Anheuser-Busch before coming to the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 6, 2010 - If you talk to professionals on the front lines in the fight against hate, three…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 20, 2009 - Sprawled in a loose ring, 10 young black women sit in the back corner of the…