Karen Crump-Wilson

Director, Resolutions and Equity

Karen L. Crump-Wilson, Esq. is the Director of the Resolutions & Equity Division. Karen is responsible for overseeing the NIH federal sector EEO complaint process. Karen has over 25 years of labor and employment legal experience.

Prior to joining NIH, Karen served as an Attorney-Advisory, Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, National Labor Relations Board. While in that position, Karen advised aggrieved employees of the EEO process, investigated formal EEO complaints and prepared investigative reports, conducted extensive and thorough legal research, and drafted final agency decisions. Karen served as the Informal and Formal Complaints Manager overseeing a cadre of collateral-duty EEO Counselors and managing the informal and formal EEO complaint process. Karen further managed the Equal Employment Opportunity Office when she served as the Interim Director for the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Karen has a passion for alternative dispute resolution. She is a certified mediator and has over 15 years of experience serving as a lead mediator for programs including the Multi-Door Dispute Resolution and Shared Neutrals. She also extensive experience as a certified arbitrator.

Karen holds a Juris Doctorate from the Catholic University of America, the Columbus School of Law, and is admitted to practice in Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. She earned her Bachelor of Art degree in sociology and political science from Allegheny College.

Karen resides in the Washington, D.C. area and is the proud mother of three children with two currently in college and one in high school. Karen’s hobbies include reading, exercising, vacationing, and spending time with family.