Karen Holmes Ward

Emcee | Director of Public Affairs & Community Services, WCVB Channel 5

KAREN HOLMES WARD is the Director of Public Affairs and Community Services for WCVB, whose community service efforts during and following the Boston Marathon attack were honored with the National Association of Broadcasters’ Service to Community in Television award. Karen also serves as host and executive producer of CityLine, WCVB-TV’s Emmy Award-winning weekly magazine program that addresses the accomplishments, concerns and issues facing people of color living in Boston and its suburbs. A graduate of Boston University’s School of Public Communications (now COM), Karen has received numerous awards for her work in the community, including the National Association of Black Journalists Region I Journalist of the Year, the ‘Silver Circle’ Lifetime Achievement Award from the Boston/New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Massachusetts Broadcasters Lifetime Achievement Award, and honorary doctorates from Merrimack College, Cambridge College and Boston University.