Karen A. Frenkel
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Karen A. Frenkel

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Karen A. Frenkel is a technology journalist, author, and producer. Her memoir, Family Treasures Lost and Found (Post Hill Press 2025), investigates her parents’ unspoken WWII stories. Readers accompany Karen on her quest and discovery of how her resourceful parents’ survived on the run from the Nazis. Having scoured online and real-world archives and visited the relevant cities, Karen honors her parents, her sole surviving grandparent, and lost relatives, who cease to be mere names and whom she came to respect and love. In addition to her memoir, Karen has produced a tie-in documentary with the same title. Her previous award-winning documentaries, Minerva’s Machine: Women and Computing and NetLEARNING, cover the impact of technology on society and appeared on public television. She co-authored with Isaac Asimov Robots: Machines in Man’s Image. Articles published by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Bloomberg dotcom, Communications Magazine, Discover, Essence, FastCompany, Forbes, Science Magazine, ScientificAmerican dot com, Scientific American, The New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, and other national publications.
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