After graduating from college, Kara spent a decade working on Avionics systems at Lockheed Martin Federal System-Owego. She then took a 15 year hiatus, focusing on raising her children and performing extensive volunteer work with the PTA, Girl Scouts, and other organizations. Returning to work in July 2018, she has been employed with The MITRE Corporation for 6 years with a specialization in Agile organizational transformations. It is through this work that Kara determined that Psychological Safety must be present for Agile and DevOps practices to be implemented successfully. Kara and co-presenter Deanna Stanley speak at conferences about Psychological Safety topics.