Kara is the President of PDX Browncoats and has been helping to organize their signature event, Can’t Stop the Serenity, since its inception in 2006. She was a writer, audio editor, and producer on the Firefly-focused The Signal podcast and recently started the GrimmPDX podcast (grimmpdx.libsyn.com) with co-host Anna Snyder. A historian and writer by training, she enjoys long talks about Puritans, how Jane Austen was kind of a formulaic romance writer, Arnold Palmers, and getting caught in the rain.