Karen Stevenson has been a Drupal contributor since 2006. She is a co-maintainer of the Content Construction Kit (CCK) and author of the Date, and Calendar modules that use CCK and Views as the basis for highly flexible and configurable event management systems. She previously created content management systems for her own ElderWeb site and other organizations, including web-based calendar and class scheduling systems and a multi-lingual help desk web site. She has been involved in code sprints and other efforts to start moving CCK to core, and participated in the Drupal usability testing at the University of Minnesota.