Karen Bogenschneider, PhD is the Former Director of the Family Impact Institute and Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She spent 25 years of her career founding and directing the Wisconsin Family Impact Seminars. Under her leadership, she provided technical assistance to about two dozen states that conducted over 225 Seminars. She has enriched the field by expanding fundamental theories about how the use of research in policymaking could be improved if the research community had a better understanding of the policy community–its inhabitants, institutions, and culture.

In her role as Emeritus President of TrestleLink, Karen advises the adoption and scale of the Family Impact Seminar model as well as development strategy. Her policy research has been recognized by Wiley Publishing and her outreach has received awards from the the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. She was honored by the Wisconsin State Legislature for her service to the state.