Karen Wilde
Muscogee Nation

Karen Wilde is the Native American/American Indian Relations Manager for Boulder County. This position is a first for Boulder County and for any of the 65 counties within the State of Colorado.  Previous employment included the U.S. Forest Service at Mark Twain National Forest and Tribal Liaison for the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, National Park Service, where she worked with park management to actively engage in consultation with tribally designated descendants of the massacre victims and survivors.  

At the National Park Service, Karen served on the Intermountain Region writing team for the draft management guidance on Sacred Sites, she was Co-Chair of the service-wide American Indian volunteer employee group, Council for Indigenous Relevancy, Communication, Leadership and Excellence (CIRCLE), and is a lifetime member of Society of American Indian Government Employees (SAIGE). At the Forest Service, she was the forest’s point of contact for renaming derogatory names of geographic features. Her community involvement includes gubernatorial appointments such as the Board of Trustees of a Colorado higher education institution, a member of the Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Council State Advisory Board, and a member of the Colorado 15th Judicial District Nominating Commission. 

Karen is a first-generation college graduate with an AAS from Haskell Indian Jr College, BSBA from Northeastern State University, completed a paralegal certificate, and achieved a Master of Jurisprudence in Indian Law (MJIL). Karen is a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and a proud citizen of the Muscogee Nation.