Karen Gerson Sarhon is the Editor in Chief of El Amaneser (the Dawn) the only all-Ladino newspaper in the world published monthly out of Istanbul, Turkey. She is widely known as an authority in all aspects of Sephardic culture: language, music, food, folklore, theater, and literature. She is vocalist and co-founder (with Izzet Bana) of Los Pasharos Sefaradis, the first ensemble dedicated to Sephardic music in Turkey and serves as the director of The Ottoman Sephardic Research Center in Istanbul.