Dr. Karen Mock is an educational psychologist and human rights activist. She was appointed by the federal government as Executive Director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation from 2001 to 2005; and prior to that was National Director of the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada for twelve years, as well as Executive Director of the League’s Education and Training Centre.

Karen (Greenberg) Mock was educated at the University of Toronto, earning her Ph.D. in Applied Psychology in 1975. Dr. Mock is a certified teacher and registered psychologist, specializing in human rights, hate crime, diversity and multicultural/anti-racist education. She is considered a pioneer in the field, having developed and taught the first course in multicultural teacher education in Canada. She has also been qualified by the courts as an expert on hate groups, hate group activity, discrimination and antisemitism.

Prior to her full time work in human rights, Dr. Mock devoted 20 years to teacher education, teaching developmental and educational psychology, psychological testing and assessment, and multiculturalism and race relations at University of Toronto, Ryerson Polytechnical University and York University. She has maintained a consulting practice for diversity and human rights training and policy development in the public and private sectors, and is well known as a dynamic lecturer and workshop coordinator.

Dr. Mock is currently president of the Canadian Friends of Haifa University. She is the past president of the Ontario Multicultural Association, a former member of the board of the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, and past chair of the Canadian Multiculturalism Advisory Committee to the Secretary of State. She is a founding member of the Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims, the Women's Interfaith Dialogue, and co-founder of the Arab Jewish Dialogue Leadership Group.

Karen was appointed by the Attorney General and Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services as Chair of the Hate Crimes Community Working Group, reporting to the Government of Ontario in December 2006; and she served as Senior Policy Advisor on Diversity and Equity to the Minister of Education for the development and delivery of Ontario’s Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy, that was released in April 2009.

On August 25, 2009, she announced her candidacy for the nomination of the Liberal Party of Canada for Member of Parliament in the Ontario riding of Thornhill. On September 13, 2009, Karen Mock was acclaimed as Liberal Candidate for Thornhill for the next federal election.

Awards

• 1993 - Honourable Mention as a YWCA Woman of Distinction
• 1995 - Named to the Who's Who of Canadian Women
• 1999 - Received the International Women’s Day Award from the Women's Intercultural Network
• 2002 - Received the Excellence in Race Relations Award from the Human Rights Council of the Ahmadiyya Movement of Islam in Canada
• 2004 - Recipient of the Sikh Centennial Foundation Award for Civil Liberties Advocacy
• 2005 - Designated a Woman of Influence by the University of Saskatchewan
• 2008 - Named an Eminent Woman of Peace by the Department of Peace Initiative and Voices of Women in Ottawa
• 2009 – Canadian National Lifetime Achievement Award for Diversity from the EMCY Foundation in Regina
• Dr. Mock is included as one of the 100 worldwide "Everyday Freedom Heroes" for her human rights and antiracism work, in a permanent display at the Freedom Center in Cincinnati, the U.S. National Museum to the Underground Railroad.