Karen Civil
| Karen Civil | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 8, 1984 Brooklyn, New York |
| Alma mater | Union County College |
| Occupation | Digital marketing strategist, entrepreneur, author |
| Organization | KarenCivil.com, Live Civil & CMO Marathon Agency |
| Home town | Elizabeth, New Jersey |
| Website | www |
Karen Civil (born November 8, 1984) is an American social media and digital media marketing strategist. She gained attention for helping to create and run Weezythanxyou.com, a website where the rapper Lil Wayne published letters to his fans while he was incarcerated at Rikers Island.
Civil grew up in a Haitian-American family in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She attended Elizabeth High School, then Union County College in New Jersey.
Civil began her media career in middle school, developing fan sites for actor J. D. Williams and The Backstreet Boys; the Backstreet Boys site came in third in a national competition and the Williams site put Civil in touch with the actor after Williams' lawyer sought her out.
After graduating from high school, Civil entered community college but left to take an internship at radio station Hot 97 with DJ Funkmaster Flex in 2002, where she worked as a staff assistant; she also began working with Dipset to develop e-commerce for the group.
Civil later moved to Asylum Records, then in 2008 founded her own website karencivil.com and a marketing agency, Always Civil Enterprise, focused on digital strategy in the hip-hop industry.
In 2010 worked with rapper Lil Wayne to develop Weezythanxyou.com, so that the rapper could publish letters to his fans while he was incarcerated at Rikers Island. From 2011 to 2015, she worked with Beats by Dre as digital marketing manager.
Civil has become a public speaker, hosting events at universities, media outlets like BET, and women empowerment conferences and panels.
In November 2015, Civil self-published a self-help book,Be You & Live Civil: Tools for Unlocking Your Potential & Living Your Purpose. Organized into four chapters called "Understanding Motivation," "Self Motivation," "Positive Attitude" and "Living Civil", Civil describes her approach to her career path.
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