In the Media
- Runner’s World’s Training Daily blog chose Karla as one of five bloggers to follow on a Holiday Running Streak. RW followed up with her two weeks in. Nov. 24, 2011 and Dec. 7, 2011.
- Runner’s World’s RW Daily, by RunnersWorld.com executive editor Mark Remy, devoted an entire post to Karla’s article, Ben & Jerry’s Schweddy Balls has NPR, runners giddy. Sept. 13, 2011.
- Runner’s World’s Racing News blog highlighted and quoted Karla’s article, Do women-only running races still matter? June 30, 2010.
- Karla moderated a panel at the JackRabbit NYC Running show called NYC Running Scene at 4 pm on Saturday, April 23, 2011. She lead a discussion with local running luminaries on how runners in NYC can expand their horizons. April 23, 2011.
- Karla moderated a Social Media Week panel in New York called The Social Runner featuring New York Road Runner’s Social Media Manager, Sean Haubert, the founder of NYCRUNS, Steve Lastoe, and running blogger Kai MacMahon, better known as IdiotRunner. Feb. 10, 2011
- “The Marathon Show” named Karla one of The Most Interesting People of 2010. Dec. 20, 2010
- Active. com published Karla’s article, What Runners Should Know About Protein. Nov. 22, 2010
- Karla sang “America the Beautiful” to start the professional women’s and wheelchair competitions at the 2010 ING New York City Marathon. Nov. 7, 2010
- The Baltimore Sun “Exercists” fitness blog wrote a post about Karla’s column, NYC marathon: When right goes wrong. Oct. 30, 2010
- Karla appeared on “The Marathon Show” to talk about the New York City Marathon and announce that New York Road Runners tapped her to sing at the start. Oct. 19, 2010
- The New York Times “On the Run” blog quoted Karla and linked to her column, New York City Marathon: The Agony and the Ecstasy. Oct. 13, 2010
- Runner’s World online published What if? What I learned from Bernard Lagat, Karla’s essay about running and regrets at the Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile. Oct. 1, 2010
- New York Road Runner’s asked Karla to sing the national anthem at the Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile. Sept. 26, 2010.
- Karla appeared as a guest on The Marathon Show on BlogTalkRadio and iTunes. During the hour-long interview, she talked about the running status of many elite marathoners, how to be a successful blogger, her coverage of the Olympics and much more. July 27, 2010
- New York Road Runners featured Karla’s band The FADES on their video for NYRR’s Annual Father’s Day Race Against Prostate Cancer Presented by ABC7. The Fades played the post-race festival in Central Park and were featured on “Running” on the YES Network. June 20, 2010
- New York Road Runners featured Run, Karla, Run and Karla’s band The FADES on their website as part of the post-race festival for NYRR’s Annual Father’s Day Race Against Prostate Cancer Presented by ABC7. June 20, 2010
- Throughout the first week of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Karla appeared on “America’s Morning News,” a nationally syndicated talk show on the Talk Radio Network with over 3 million listeners, as well as “Good Morning San Diego” on KSUI TV in San Diego. She covered the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver for The Washington Times. February 2010
- Brooks Running mentioned Karla’s list of The Best Runners of the Decade in The Brooks Blog. Feb. 1, 2010
- Fox Sports online highlighted Karla’s list of The Best Runners of the Decade on their The Decade in Review. December 2009
- Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism announced the launch of “Run, Karla, Run!” on The Washington Times Communities. Nov. 19, 2009
- Karla was a student speaker at Journalism in the Service of Democracy: A Summit of Deans, Faculty, Students and Journalists at The Paley Center for Media. She spoke about being a News21 Fellow. Jan. 8-9, 2008
- The PBS blog Mediashift interviewed Karla about News21, and highlighted her multimedia story One in a Million: Hispanic Clergy in the Catholic Church as a “standout” of the site. Sept. 12, 2007
- The Religion Newswriters Association named Karla one of 10 national finalists for the Chandler Award for Student Writer of the Year. September 2007
- The blog RetroVision Media reviewed Long Time Passing at Theater for the New City, the last full-length play Karla starred in before “retiring” as an actor. The play didn’t get raves, but her performance did. March 15, 2006
- b-independent.com reviewed It’s a Haunted Happenin’, a film from Karla’s oeuvre as an actor.