Karlene

Dame Karlene Davis, DBE is a Jamaican-British midwife. She is the former General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Midwifery, Regional Representative for Europe in the International Confederation of Midwives, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a member of the Wellbeing Council at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She has become one of the most senior black women in the health profession and the UK's first black woman trade union leader.

Karlene Faith (1938-2017) was a Canadian writer, feminist, scholar, and human rights activist. She was a professor emerita at the Simon Fraser University School of Criminology. She was famous for writing The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten in 2001.

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This is the sort of name that grows on you. Karlene Bridges is the main character in the novel Spelldown, about the National Spelling Bee. She's a sassy, yet intelligent and thoughtful girl, and this name fits that sort of a person perfectly. I like it how Karly could be a nickname for it, so you have two options.