Karen Chassin Goldbaum joins the Community Foundation as communications officer. She supports the Community Foundation’s education and information activities and provides communications and marketing support to the New Economy Initiative.

Goldbaum most recently served as director of communications for the University of Michigan Museum of Art through its successful campaign to expand and renovate its facility and led the museum’s rebranding and the marketing campaign for its 2009 grand reopening. Prior to that she served as the museum’s senior editor and head of publications, editing art books and exhibitions, and writing and editing websites and membership and development publications.

Goldbaum holds an M.A. in English from the University of Toronto and a B.A. in English from Miami University in Ohio.