Exeter School District celebrated the achievements of two alums and a community member by inducting them into the Exeter Alumni Association’s Academic Hall of Fame.
This year’s honorees were Jennifer Hauseman, Class of 1990, a globally-focused technology and digital strategy leader, and Karen Williams, Class of 1975, and her husband, Jack Williams. The couple are longtime community volunteers and founders of the Exeter Area Food Pantry.
Inductees are selected for their contributions to society and the impact and credit they have brought to the school district through their achievements, volunteerism and service.
Jennifer Hauseman, a 1990 graduate of Exeter High School, has been inducted into the Exeter School District’s Hall of Fame. As a digital expert, Hauseman spent her career working in philanthropic, humanitarian and development areas of the private and public sectors. (Courtesy of Exeter Alumni Association.)
Hauseman built an international career as a technologist and digital strategy leader across philanthropic, humanitarian, development and public-sector organizations.
She oversees digital platforms and content for the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, collaborating with global partners to highlight the center’s impact in advancing economic inclusion.
Before joining Mastercard, Hauseman led digital engagement and data-driven initiatives at the Digital Impact Alliance at the United Nations Foundation in Washington, D.C., working to ensure that all people have access to the trusted digital tools needed to participate fully in society.
She also previously served as the global director of communication and information management at the International Committee of the Red Cross, overseeing IT, communications, archives and project management across more than 80 countries. Her modernization efforts with Red Cross helped digitize the organization’s communications and guided the adoption of human-centered design and minimum viable product development.
Earlier, Hauseman was the deputy director of communications at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she authored the foundation’s digital strategy and oversaw the exponential growth of its digital channels.
She began her career as a developer at Amazon, working on international sites.
Hauseman is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. She earned advanced degrees from HEC Paris and Oxford in 2025.
Longtime Exeter Township residents Jack and Karen Williamson have been inducted into the Exeter School District Hall of Fame. Karen, a graduate of Exeter Senior High School, taught in the school district for 35 years. Her husband is executive director of the Berks Coalition to End Homelessness. The couple were instrumental in founding the Exeter Area Food Pantry.
(Courtesy of Exeter Alumni Association.)
Karen and Jack Williams have made a transformative impact on the Exeter community through more than a decade of service to families facing food insecurity.
Along with a group of community members, they helped found and continue to lead the Exeter Area Food Pantry, which has grown into one of the largest and most essential community resources serving the 19606 and 19508 ZIP codes.
The couple helped launch the pantry in 2011 after Jack learned from the nonprofit now Helping Harvest that 19606 was the most underserved ZIP code in Berks County.
The pantry grew to serve nearly 200 families monthly by the end of 2019. That more than tripled with the start of the COVID -19 pandemic in 2020.
The pantry now serves about 350 families monthly and is supported by more than 150 volunteers.
A retired school teacher, Karen Williams served the school district for nearly four decades as a first grade, pre-first and kindergarten teacher at Lorane Elementary.
After retiring from teaching in 2017, she became the food pantry’s coordinator, managing food ordering, volunteer coordination, registration and distribution.
She is also a member of Healthy Harvest’s Healthy Pantry Initiative and the Pantry Council.
Jack spent 30 years as a business owner before entering nonprofit leadership, serving first with Berks County’s Habitat for Humanity and now as the executive director of the Berks Coalition to End Homelessness.
He also serves on the board of Refresh Berks and is a Rotary Club Paul Harris Fellow. He continues to serve the food pantry on its steering committee.
Karen and Jack are graduates of Millersville University. Karen also holds a master’s degree and reading specialist certification.