Kara is a Knight-Hennessey Scholar, pursuing a master’s degree in symbolic systems at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. She studied Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. Interested in the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence, Kara completed summer internships at Google and YouTube, where she worked on a project to improve the quality of Mixes, which are infinite auto-generated music playlists.  At Columbia, Kara was Co-President of the university's chapter of Lean In, where she quintupled its membership and oversaw the creation of a mentor program that partners 70 Columbia women with women professionals in NYC.  Kara was also the Features editor for the weekly magazine of the Columbia Spectator, Columbia's newspaper of record, and created the first podcast of the publication.  Kara obtained degrees in English and Computer Science at Columbia University.