Karina Junker

Karina Junker, born on May 3, 1980 and a native of Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, moved to the United States when she was eight years old. She began taking piano and singing lessons at an early age and performed in local plays as a teenager. At the age of 18, Junker went to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to do community service for two weeks, but fell in love with the island so much that she stayed for five years. It was during this time that she booked her first international commercial and print campaign for Tricom. Junker attended Universidad Iberoamericana in Santo Domingo, where she did a three-year study in Psychology. She completed her Bachelor of Arts at InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico in 2002. During Junker's first semester in graduate school at Columbia University, her mother was involved in a serious car accident, which left her in a coma for nine years.