# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:58:28.185Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-lewis"
name: "Karen Lewis"
slug: "karen-lewis"
description: "Karen Lewis was an American educator and labor leader who served as president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Chicago's division of the American Federation of Teachers, from 2010 to 2014. For nearly 20 years before becoming president of the teachers union, she was a high school chemistry teacher."
tagline: "American labor leader (1953-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karen_Lewis.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1953-06-26"
deathDate: "2021-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.73
  momentum:             5.294117647058822
  historical:           4.211412
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "كارين لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Lewis"
    title: "Karen Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Lewis"
    title: "Karen Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Lewis"
    title: "Karen Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Lewis"
    title: "Karen Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16731453"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump