Kara Atkinson

Vet Corps Navigator

she/her/hers

Phone: 253-535-7412

Email: kara.atkinson@plu.edu

Office Location: Anderson University Center - 183

Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm (Off Campus) Wed: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (On Campus) Thu: 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Website: https://calendly.com/kara-atkinson-cms/vet-corps-mentorship

  • Professional
  • Biography

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts, History, Pacific Lutheran University, 2023
  • Associate of Arts, Egyptian Arabic, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, 2018

Biography

Kara Atkinson is currently serving her second year as the Vet Corps Navigator at Pacific Lutheran University.

Kara medically retired from the United States Army as a Specialist in 2019. She graduated from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center with her Associate of Arts in Egyptian Arabic in 2018.

Kara graduated from PLU with a Bachelor of Arts in History and minors in Religion and Holocaust and Genocide Studies in May 2023. She is currently a Graduate Student at the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies.

In her time as a student at PLU, Kara received Dean’s List recognition and participated in the Dale E. Benson Summer Research Fellowship for Business and Economic History. She also worked as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (HIST 103: Modern World Conflicts and POLS 231: Terrorism and Extremism) and was the President of Phi Alpha Theta (History Honors Society).