Who is behind Wish You Knew?

Karen Bortvedt Estrada has been invited to speak and facilitate workshops in five different languages, to audiences ranging from a few people to audiences of hundreds. She has presented and facilitated workshops at conferences, universities, churches, and non-profit organizations and has led retreats for small groups both virtually and in-person. She has spoken on topics such as self-care, mindfulness, nonviolence, restorative justice, bias, transitions, depolarization, cross-cultural communication, international living, relationship building, and discovering our path in life. One of her greatest strengths is creating deeply meaningful, brave virtual spaces.  She is a certified Cambodian Sign Language Interpreter and lived and worked with the Cambodian Deaf community for three years. She previously served on the board of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry, was a founding board member of Engage Globally - an organization that supports community-led sustainable development, and currently serves on the Racial Justice and Diversity Committee for the Catholic Volunteer Network.

After almost 20 years working with, for, and as (a) professional in the giver field, Karen noticed how many people burnt out or burnt up in these spaces.  Karen also saw how some small changes could help support activists, givers, non-profit and ministry workers to sustain them while they continued to strive for the deep structural and institutional changes needed.  Creating those triage spaces is one of Karen’s gifts, and from that Wish You Knew has been born.