Multi-talented Karen Majewski is the Mayor of the City of Hamtramck, Michigan and works at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the Economy. She has a PhD in American Culture (U of Michigan) and is an award winning author, notably for Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880-1939. Formerly an executive director of the Polish American Historical Association, she has also served as the Polish and Rare Books Librarian for the Polish Mission of the Orchard Lake Schools.