Karen González

Karen González

Karen González is seeking to see and love her neighbors as God does. She is a speaker, writer, and immigrant advocate, who herself immigrated from Guatemala as a child. Karen is a former public school teacher and attended Fuller Theological Seminary, where she studied theology and missiology. For the last 12 years, she has been a non-profit professional, currently working for World Relief, an organization in Baltimore, MD that serves immigrants and refugees. She wrote a book about her own immigration story and the many immigrants found in the Bible: The God Who Sees: Immigrants, The Bible, and the Journey to Belong (Herald Press, May 2019). She also has bylines in Sojourners, Christianity Today, The Christian Century, Christ and Pop Culture, and others. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram musing about theology: @_karenjgonzalez or at her website karen-gonzalez.com.

Her book, The God Who Sees, can be purchased here

More Info On World Relief

Additional links for non-partisan, factual immigration information:

National Immigration Forum

American Immigration Council