Karin Roberts was born and raised in Austria and moved in 1992 to the United States. She worked as a German teacher at Berlitz Language School in Orange, CA., where she met her husband David.  In 1998, she moved to Riverside. In 2006, she started to work at Habitat for Humanity Riverside and retired as the agency’s Executive Director in 2014.

Karin’s love of traveling and exploring other cultures was a good fit for the IRC. In 2009, she realized Riverside had no sister cities in Europe. She approached Mayor Ron Loveridge, and consequently, he asked her to find a sister city in Germany. 2011, the relationship with Erlangen, Bavaria, was established, and this connection is still flourishing. Hobbies: history, travels, reading, classical music