About Karen Vaughn

Karen Vaughn is bringing Real, Fun and Fab to your work day! Like many of her listeners, Karen Vaughn enjoys great music and compelling conversation. She gives a dose of both from 10am – 3pm on 106.7 WTLC. Karen is deeply committed to using her platform to inform, entertain and inspire. Her charisma, vibrancy and engaging sensibility allow her to not only develop entertaining programming, but to connect with her listeners instantly.

Karen also serves as Operations Manager for Radio-One Indianapolis. She comes from Radio-One Philadelphia where she continues to handle 10am – 3pm on 100.3 WRNB and was also Operations Manager for WRNB, WPHI and WPPZ. Her radio broadcasting expertise has earned her numerous honors and awards throughout her career. She has been honored as Assistant Program Director and Music Director of the Year from Billboard Magazine. Her Radio show has also been nominated for Urban Radio Personality/Show of the year and Karen has been inducted in the Broadcaster’s Hall of Fame in Ohio.

A graduate of Philadelphia’s Temple University, Karen has represented the March of Dimes, The Sister to Sister Foundation, and American Heart Association as a spokesperson. Karen’s community outreach programs through her ‘Karen Cares’ brand have given hundreds of South Florida women spa makeovers, career and resume workshops, and work/life balance services. In addition to books for children and providing families with their holiday needs in Indianapolis.

From her strong community connect, in 2008 she launched an interactive life-balance website for working women www.workingdivas.com™. As a mother balancing family, work and motherhood, Karen crafted Working Divas™ to empower women to put themselves first and enjoy the “bliss” that life has to offer. “Women have to find ways to manage daily demands and still achieve happiness in their lives,” says Karen.

As a premiere endorser and voiceover actress, top Brands have solicited Karen to represent them. She has endorsed, Ulta Beauty, OWN-TV, Remy Martin, Red Robin, Comcast, Dove, Marshalls, Lipton, Khol’s, Noxzema, Disney, Danielle’s Weave Salon, Royal Caribbean International, Empress Hair Care and Ideal Baby Store.

Celebrated for her engaging personality and her in-depth interviews…Lionel Richie boasted, “Karen has the magic.” Tyler Perry says, “I love being on Karen’s Show, she does the best interviews.” She has welcomed into the studio Ella Mai, Maxwell, El DeBarge, Suze Orman, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jay Z, John Legend, Jamie Foxx, Eddie LeVert and Boris Kodjoe to name a few.

Karen has worked in major markets across the country including Miami, Washington, DC, Cleveland and Baltimore.

Tune into Karen to experience a fresh approach to television, radio and the web. Karen Vaughn -Working Mom…Working Media!

Karen is represented by the Law Offices of Joseph H. Davis and The Russ PR Agency.

Book publisher Karen Hunter does not know how to hold her tongue. Not that she has any desire to learn. After all, silence would deny the world of such witticisms as Hunter saying that Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney might be “running for president of Caucasia-stan,” because of a GOP ad that was devoid of people of color. […]

      On the heels of a successful performancing during the Essence Music Fest, Mary J. Blige and D’Angelo will take their shows on the road for the Liberation Tour kicking off August 18th in Virginia Beach. Only a few dates have been released, yet it will be a 20-date tour traveling throughout the […]

Toni and  her fabulous sisters with their straight with no chaser mom return to WE on Thursday, August 16 at 9|8c with six all-new episodes. Tamar couldn’t reveal this seasons big stories, we’ll have to watch for that…she does says there will be more “a lot of crying, laughing, and telling people off.” Pour a glass of […]

On the heels of a recent Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with a McDonald’s employee, an AskReddit conversation thread popped up yesterday that we couldn’t tear ourselves away from. “Fast food workers of Reddit, what is the one menu option at your employment that you would recommend people never eat? (Because of cooking safety, cleanliness, unhealthy, […]

Joined by her handsome sons, Nia Long garnered herself a little added exposure by covering the August 2012 issue of Essence magazine. The 41-year-old actress looked as happy as ever as she hammed it up alongside 19-month-old Massai Zhivago and and 9-month-old Kez Sundayin while telling the publication that she “has never felt more fulfilled” than she does in […]

It’s grilling season and chances are you’ll be making that ever-important cookout decision: hot dog or hamburger? Some people, no doubt, are cheering “Both!” But if you’re trying to make a healthier choice, then the registered dietitian in me knows that “both” is not the answer. So which one is the healthier pick? See how […]

If you watched the last episode of Love &Hip Hop Atlanta, Mimi (who’s been in an on-again-off-again relationship with Stevie J for 15 years) sat down with his artist and mistress Joseline who revealed the news that she was pregnant by Stevie. After the show aired last night, photographer Freddy O was out at a […]

Keke Palmer is working on a new project, this time with Sherri Shepherd and Aunjanue Ellis. The three will co-star in a Lifetime production “Abducted: The Carlina White Story,” a film based on the true life story of Carlina White, a girl who solved her own kidnapping mystery and reunites with her birth parents 23 […]

This summer’s Essence Music Festival is going to be a blast, especially with recently announced added performances. On Sunday July 8, divas Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin will blow audiences away with a powerful 60-minute set. Together Khan, Faith Evans, Nicci Gilbert, Monifah Carter, Syleena Johnson and KeKe Wyatt will perform a special tribute to […]

Don’t look at problems as trouble, look at them as learning lessons.

Well look who’s starting to get his groove back. None other than Tiger Woods. He won another tournament on Sunday.  This time it was the AT&T National at Congressional Country Club in Washington, D.C. to move ahead of golf great Jack Nicklaus. For Woods and golf in general, everything is starting to look very 2009. […]

Mary J. Blige became the butt of one of the Internet’s biggest jokes earlier this year when Burger King released a commercial showing the R&B singer performing a jingle describing their new crispy chicken snack wraps. The lyrics (in case you forgot) went a little something like this: Crispy Chicken, Fresh Lettuce, Three Cheeses, Wrapped up in a, tasty, flour, […]