Karen Rundlet

Karen Rundlet was named the CEO/Executive Director of the Institute for Nonprofit News in November 2023. The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) is a membership organization and network almost 500 independent news outlets across North America. Under her leadership, INN distributed rapid response grant funding to local newsrooms providing essential information and reporting on the California wildfires. She also secured philanthropic commitments to NewsMatch through 2028. Rundlet previously served as Senior Director for the Knight Foundation’s journalism program, where she managed a $50 million portfolio. While at Knight, she secured investments for news innovators like Solutions Journalism Network, the Documenters program, and Outlier Media. In the first part of her career, Rundlet worked as a journalist at The Miami Herald, public media's WLRN, and WNBC-TV. Rundlet was named to Nonprofit Times 2024 "Power and Influence" Top 50 list. Rundlet is a graduate of Georgetown University. She, her husband, Alex, and daughter live in Miami, where she grew up after her family emigrated from Jamaica.