Keren serves as the Executive Director at the Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (KIPCOR). Her background is in peacebuilding and conflict transformation, with interest in faith-rooted organizations and trauma healing. She also has a background of peacebuilding work in Palestine/Israel.
Keren has a B.S. in International Relations from Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, a Graduate Certificate in Faith-Based Peacebuilding from Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, Va., and an M.A. in Conflict Transformation from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg.
Keren’s credentials in peacebuilding and conflict transformation come not only through education, but also experience. She lived in Bethlehem, Palestine from 2016-20, where she was the Holy Land Program Coordinator for Experience Mission in Bethlehem, and for most of that time also served as English Communications Officer for Bethlehem Bible College. She worked as a peace associate briefly with Lombard Mennonite Peace Center as she finished out her Master’s at CJP, and completed her certificate in Mediation Skills Training. She also served as an independent contractor for the Chicagoland Trauma Informed Congregations Network while living in Chicago.
Her current position at KIPCOR allows her to support the staff, engage the community and continue to practice in the realms of restorative justice, conflict transformation and intervention work across Kansas and the nation.