I am not sorry. But I am SO MUCH MORE.
On being known for the worst thing that happened to you—and refusing to let it become the most interesting thing about your life.
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Keynote Speaker · Survivor Advocate · True Crime Ethics Consultant · Television Host
Bringing lived experience, investigative insight, and much-needed nuance to the way we tell stories, ask harder questions, and talk about what happens after survival.
Kara’s perspective is shaped by survival, former law-enforcement experience, victim advocacy, television production, investigative hosting, and her work training professionals on ethics in true crime - giving her a rare view of how crime stories are lived, investigated, produced, and ultimately told.
Kara Robinson Chamberlain has experienced the criminal justice and true-crime worlds from perspectives few people ever will.
At 15, Kara survived an abduction and violent attack, escaped captivity, and provided investigators with information that helped identify her captor and connect him to additional crimes. She later worked in law enforcement, supported victims and survivors, and moved into television as a producer, investigator, and host.
Those experiences have shaped Kara into a trusted voice on survivor advocacy and ethics in true crime, challenging professionals and audiences to preserve humanity, agency, and nuance even when the story is difficult.
Her work is driven by a simple belief: survivors should be more than the subjects of other people’s stories. Their experience can also be expertise.
Keynotes built on more than a story.
Kara uses one extraordinary case study to open much bigger conversations about resilience, agency, survivor empowerment, response, and what happens after crisis.
Drawing from lived experience, law enforcement, advocacy, and more than two decades of perspective after survival, her keynotes pair compelling storytelling with practical insight—leaving audiences not only moved, but thinking differently about their own capacity, how they respond to others, and the role each of us can play in creating safer, more empowered communities.
Case Studies · Survivor Empowerment · Resilience · Law Enforcement & Victim Response
"Kara was a wonderfully engaging speaker at our recent Summit. Kara's perspective, powerful delivery, and candor captivated our audience and had people talking for weeks. We would absolutely recommend Kara to anyone looking to have an impactful conversation about advocacy and supporting survivors."
- Beth (Malouf)
Training & Consulting
True Crime can be compelling without losing its humanity.
Kara has established herself as a voice on ethics in true crime, training professionals and speaking about the responsibilities that come with turning real people’s lives into content.
Her perspective comes from having occupied both sides of the camera—as a survivor whose story has been told by others and as a professional working within television and true-crime media. She brings nuance to conversations around survivor participation, language, consent, victim agency, family relationships, storytelling choices, and the impact that remains long after production ends.
Kara also works with productions and organizations seeking survivor-informed perspective in development, storytelling, and participant engagement.
Ethics Training · Survivor-Informed Storytelling · Production Consultation
Current Work on Screen
Somebody Knows Something
Host & Investigator
ABC News Studios · Freeform · Hulu · Disney+
Kara leads an eight-part investigative series revisiting unresolved disappearances and homicides alongside families, law enforcement, witnesses, and experts.
The Serial Killer Connection
Survivor & Investigator
Investigation Discovery · HBO Max
A three-part docuseries following Kara Robinson Chamberlain and Bonnie Lou as they retrace Richard Evonitz’s past, pursue unanswered questions, and investigate whether additional victims may still be waiting to be identified.
What happens after, matters.
The most complicated parts of survival rarely fit neatly into a headline. Kara writes and speaks about the spaces between victimhood and agency, trauma and growth, ethics and entertainment—and what changes when survivors are invited to help shape the conversations being had about them.
Bring Kara’s perspective to your audience, production, organization, or conversation.
Speaking
High-impact keynotes and professional programs.
Training & Consulting
True-crime ethics, training, and survivor-informed media expertise.
Media & Press
Interviews, appearances, and professional media inquiries.
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