Karen Nussle

Karen Nussle

Executive Director, Conservative Leaders for Education

Karen Nussle serves as Executive Director of the Collaborative for Student Success, a grant-making initiative created to educate and inform all stakeholders - parents, students, teachers, community leaders and policy makers - about the needs for and benefits of increased standards, aligned assessments and comparability across states.<br /> <br /> As a veteran communications strategist with experience in the private, public, political and non-profit sectors, Karen has owned and operated a successful boutique communications firm, Ripple Communications, held positions at both Burson-Marsteller and BKSH &amp; Associates (now Prime Policy Group), and has considerable campaign experience in the state of Iowa.<br /> <br /> Karen is also one of the handful of staff who worked for Newt Gingrich when he was Minority Whip and then made the historic move to The Speaker's Office in 1994. She served in a variety of roles in The Speaker's Office, but most notably was the staff assigned to generating greater exposure for the Republican women serving in the House.