# Dean Karen Richardson

**Source**: https://admission.princeton.edu/blogs/blogger-profile/dean-karen-richardson
**Parent**: https://admission.princeton.edu/taxonomy/term/944

**Class Year:** 1993
**Major:** Politics
**Hometown:** Roebling, New Jersey

Karen Richardson is a Class of 1993 alumna. She became the dean of admission at Princeton in July 2019. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in [politics](https://politics.princeton.edu/) and has a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. As a Princeton student, Richardson was a resident adviser at [Forbes College](https://forbescollege.princeton.edu/). She sang in the [Gospel Ensemble](https://religiouslife.princeton.edu/chaplaincies-groups/christian/princeton-university-gospel-ensemble), worked at Princeton-Blairstown Center, was a Big Sister, and worked in the Office of Admission as a federal work-study student.