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Karen Diver, Fond Du Lac Reservaration, to address Cohort 3 Graduates
Karen Diver presented as the Graduation Speaker at the third MAPL Graduation Celebration, Friday, May 11.Karen Diver is the Chairwoman of the Fond du Lac Reservation. She serves as the chair of the tribal government and of the reservation’s corporate and economic development boards. The Fond du Lac Reservation is the largest employer in Carlton County with 1600 employees and over $300 million in assets. Previously, Diver served for three years as the Director of Special Projects for the Fond du Lac Reservation, and for eleven years as the Executive Director of the YWCA of Duluth.
Chairwoman Diver holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Minnesota Duluth, and a Masters degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, which she attended as a Bush Leadership Fellow in 2002. Diver has extensive board experience in the nonprofit sector including six years on the Minnesota Council of NonProfits' Board of Directors, serving two terms as chair. She was chair for six years on the seven-county Arrowhead Welfare Reform Partnership. She was a founding member of American Indian Community Housing Organization, the Duluth Community Action Program, Duluth Family Services Collaborative and the Duluth Human Rights Commission. She is a past gubernatorial appointee of Governor Arne Carlson to the Governor's Workforce Development Council. She is the immediate past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Women's Foundation of Minnesota and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Blandin Foundation. She has experience in the areas of program and community development, workforce development, poverty and women’s issues and culturally competent programming.
Diver is an enrolled member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. She lives with her husband, Arnold Selnes, in Brevator Township, and has two grown children, daughter Rochelle and stepson Nicholas.