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Health Advocate, Graphic Medicine Maker, Change Partner
Karin Mellberg
I draw care back into women's health. I am the creator of Graphic Redress, a graphic medicine memoir and visual practice restoring women's healing authority. It is my most recent expression of a long-held belief carried across decades of work: creative acts harmonize, heal, and evolve systems and hearts.
Working Across Worlds
Karin creates, collaborates and advocates at the intersection of arts and health. As a change partner, creative guide and certified Duke Health & Wellbeing Coach, she is inspired to work with individuals and groups who are creating, growing, and reaching beyond.
HEALTH & WELLBEING: A CREATIVE ACT
Daily, Karin draws upon arts and aesthetic experiences to realize her own health and wellbeing. Required to personally navigate knowledge gaps and care disparities common to autoimmune diseases that disproportionately affect women, Karin turned to expanded ways of knowing and affecting wellbeing. The arts, an early childhood love, became a life line. She immersed herself in the formal study of other systems of knowing - including mindfulness-based stress reduction, energy medicine/Reiki, Tibetan Buddhist compassion-based psychology (including formal Tibetan arts training), and nature-based shamanism. Karin continues to learn and practice across traditions, and collaborate with others. She is a champion of the neuroscience of change, and emerging field of NeuroArts. Both help expand ways of knowing health, self, and other.
ARTS + MENTAL WELLBEING
In response to COVID-19 school disruptions, Karin partnered with her sister, Carol Mellberg, MA, LMFT, ATR, to develop and deliver their arts-based BackTogether!™ program to 6,000 students. This innovative mental health prevention program continues to bring arts-based SEL skills building, joy and re-connection to students kindergarten through high school. BackTogether™ selected for the International Medical Humanities Conference, Amsterdam, 2022.
CORPORATE CHANGE PARTNER
Karin's business career has always involved change making and imagining What If - starting with her first job in the field of Continuous Quality Improvement. She's led change management, market development, leadership communications, and employee engagement programs for technology and biotech companies in Silicon Valley. She holds degrees from UCLA, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
STORYTELLING
Karin better understands herself and the world through story - creating stories, written and visual, and creating opportunities for communities to share their own. She led national health advocacy campaigns as an award-winning documentary storyteller: Stories of Lupus, 1999, WNET-PBS distributed, Time Inc. International Health & Medical Film Competition Award; and Final Pose, A Practice In Dying, 2014, Bend Film Festival Award. Graphic Redress, debuting at the Graphic Medicine Europe Conference in September 2026, continues this arc - a graphic medicine memoir and practice at the intersection of women's health, advocacy and the arts.