Dr. Karen Morell

Karen Morell was the director of Upward Bound for 18 years.  Currently she directs the TRIO Training Program which is sponsoring a national website competition this summer and TRIO Training Workshops for Directors the rest of the year.   

Why did you decide to join the program?

There was no program to join.  I created it in 1983 with the godfather of the program, Bill Baker, out of the hot air of meetings and months of research, old fashioned typewriters. (there were no desktop computers back then), and the sacrifice of our holiday season.  The proposal had to be postmarked the day before Christmas, and I delivered the 200 page proposal to the post office just as they were ready to close the door that December 24, 1983.