Professional membership has real stakes. For independent workers especially, it's often the community that replaces a team, the access an employer used to provide, or maybe even the credential that gets them hired. I've paid for those memberships out of pocket when money was tight because the value was real. My job is to help organizations deliver that value at the scale a lean team can actually sustain. Today, that means knowing how to apply AI where it actually moves the needle.

I'm a Product Operator with 15+ years across research, UX, product, and ops—working with membership organizations to understand what members actually need, then apply AI to close the gap between the value you promise and the experience members have.

Karelia Whitt

pronounced kuh-reel-yuh
currently
Independent Product Operator
clients and partnerships
Healthworx
Eskridge
Fifty Thousand Feet
formerly
Growth Product Leader
The Washington Post
DC
2018–2023
Product + UX Leader
Huge
NY + DC
2011–2018
User Research Consultant
MISI Company, ADP
NY/NJ