Carrie Sheffield is a senior policy analyst at Independent Women’s Voice and a Blankley
Carrie covered Congress for The Hill and was a founding reporter at POLITICO. She won a Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship and contributed on political economy at Forbes, wrote editorials for The Washington Times under Tony Blankley and advised the digital Millennial women’s site Bustle.com. Carrie has published in The Wall Street Journal, TIME, USA Today, CNN Opinion, The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Review, The D.C. Examiner, Newsweek, HuffPost, and Daily Caller.
As the founder of Bold TV, a digital media network featuring newsmakers across politics, business and lifestyle news, Carrie’s work has been recognized in profiles by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, Harvard University, CNN, Columbia Journalism Review, Sirius XM, The American Conservative and Metropolitan Magazine.
Carrie analyzed the 2014 Election Day results on MSNBC, interviewed House Speaker Paul Ryan on the mainstage of the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference airing live on CSPAN and defended the rights of Afghan women on The Ben Shapiro Show. 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.”
In foreign affairs, Carrie reported on the 25th anniversary of perestroika in Moscow, North-South Korean relations from Seoul and the DMZ, and covered the Beijing Olympics in China. Carrie was a correspondent for The Jerusalem Post covering the Israeli parliament and covered Egyptian political reforms in Cairo–including an interview at the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters. She also wrote on geopolitical positioning and freedom of speech in Qatar and Japanese political, economic and national security reforms.
Carrie is a member of the Harvard Christian Alumni Society and the National Press Club. A 2018 winner of the William F. Buckley Awards by America’s Future Foundation, Carrie is listed in Maverick PAC’s “Future 40” 2019 class of influential young conservatives and named a Most Inspiring New Yorker by Bumble, a social connection app with more than 55 million global users.