Community Partners

Karen Burns

B.A., University of Western Connecticut 

Phone: (757) 385-0272
E-mail: kpburns@VirginiaAquarium.com 

Karen Burns is an education specialist with the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center (VAMSC). She works with PREM outreach education and facilitates communication skills workshop for students.

Education Specialist, Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center (VAMSC) will work with PREM outreach education and facilitate communication skills workshop for students. In her current position as an Education Specialist III, she is responsible for coordinating all public education programs and develops and implements educational programs for a diversity of audiences including adults, seniors and students from all segments of the local community. She teaches Communicating Oceans Sciences to Informal Audiences, for students at Old Dominion University and Hampton University.