Carrie Sheffield is a journalist and author in Washington, D.C. A Senior Policy Analyst at Independent Women's Forum, Carrie earned a master’s in public policy from Harvard University, concentrating in business policy. She has a B.A. in communications from Brigham Young University and completed a ...more

Carrie Sheffield is a journalist and author in Washington, D.C. A Senior Policy Analyst at Independent Women's Forum, Carrie earned a master’s in public policy from Harvard University, concentrating in business policy. She has a B.A. in communications from Brigham Young University and completed a Fulbright fellowship in Berlin. As an associate at Moody’s Investors Service, Carrie served as lead analyst on a $5.5 billion portfolio of healthcare bonds. She was also a credit analyst at Goldman Sachs, where she internally rated municipal trading counterparties. She later researched for American Enterprise Institute scholar Edward Conard and served as Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow at Competitive Enterprise Institute. She's testified before the U.S. House on economic policy, and while serving as executive director for Generation Opportunity, a project of Americans For Prosperity, she spoke at the U.S. Senate alongside key senators in favor of landmark tax reforms passed by Congress in 2017. Carrie analyzed the 2014 Election Day results on MSNBC and interviewed House Speaker Paul Ryan on the mainstage of the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference airing live on CSPAN. She provided analysis for Fox News’ first 2016 GOP presidential primary debate, co-moderated a U.S. House congressional debate in Harlem and debated healthcare policy with Tom Brokaw on MSNBC under host Chuck Todd the night of the 2016 Vice Presidential debate. She analyzed the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner as a CNN on-air guest, encouraged 2018 midterm voter turnout for ABC’s “Good Morning America,” and live-tweeted for CNN Opinion on Election Day 2018. On the lighter side, she sparred on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” got a ribbing from John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight,” and responded to a bantering from Trevor Noah of “The Daily Show.” Carrie is a member of the Harvard Christian Alumni Society and a winner of the William F. Buckley Awards by America's Future Foundation, listed as a Maverick PAC’s “Future 40” influential young conservative and named a Most Inspiring New Yorker by Bumble, a social connection app with more than 55 million global users.less