Dallas Karren is currently a junior at UVU. He is pursuing a bachelor's degree in political science with an emphasis in public law and political philosophy, as well as minors in both constitutional studies and professional Spanish translation and interpreting. He aspires to attend law school and earn his Juris Doctorate degree; he also particularly enjoys constitutional law. Dallas served an LDS mission in Columbia Bogotá North from 2016 - 2018 and is interested in Latin American affairs. Dallas also served the Editor-in-Chief of the 2020 volume of the Youth and the Mountains academic research journal on Sustainable Mountain Development (SMD). Recently, Dallas led an official delegation of UIMF members, UVU faculty, and Orem Rotary during the 65th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. The delegation, through student-engaged learning, hosted a parallel event about the role of women in creating the Utah model of SMD on March 22, 2021. He married in October 2018 and is presently employed at a local law firm as a legal assistant.