Karen Pearl served as President & CEO of God’s Love We Deliver from 2006–2022, and now serves as the Special Advisor to the President & CEO. God’s Love addresses nutrition insecurity and illness by providing medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy to people living with severe illness, largely in the NYC metro area as well as in communities in New York State and New Jersey. Today, God’s Love cooks and home delivers more than 4.2 million medically tailored meals to more than 14,000 clients and their families.

Karen also serves as the Chair of the Food Is Medicine Coalition, a national association of nonprofit, medically tailored food and nutrition services providers advocating for the integration of medically tailored meal services into healthcare for the critically and/or chronically ill.

Under Karen’s leadership, God’s Love was the winner of a New York Times Nonprofit Excellence award in 2010, and a winner of the New York State Department of Health Social Determinants of Health Innovation Award in 2018. During COVID-19, God’s Love was recognized as an Essential Services Provider, never missing a delivery.

In 2018, Karen received a City/State Women’s Leadership Award, and in 2019, was named one of Crain’s Notable Women in Health Care. She has published articles and guides, and is a regular presenter at national conferences and symposia.

Karen holds a B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University and an M.A. in Counseling from New York University.