Carrie Sheffield

Sheffield in 2016.

Carrie Sheffield is a writer and political analyst based in New York City. Founder of the new media startup Bold,^[1] Sheffield is a former editorial writer for The Washington Times,^[2] a reporter for Politico,^[3] and The Hill newspaper.^[4] In 2009, Sheffield won funding from Harvard University to serve as a correspondent for The Jerusalem Post in Israel.^[5]

Biography

Sheffield earned a B.A. in communications from Brigham Young University in 2005 and a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University. She formerly worked for syndicated columnist Robert Novak^[6] before receiving a journalism fellowship award from The Phillips Foundation on "Latter-day Saints in the Policy Arena-The Political Influence and Climate of Modern Mormonism."^[7] She later joined the editorial board of The Washington Times^[8] under Tony Blankley, writing on domestic and foreign policy and politics. She covered the 2008 presidential race, including an interview with former U.S. president Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, during which he stated that former president Bill Clinton had damaged Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.^[9]

Sheffield has defended the Tea Party movement,^[10] writing that, "While a few strident Tea Partiers are guilty of fanaticism, the overwhelming majority of these activists are motivated by a kernel of truth in their worries that federal spending as a share of the national economy has risen under President Obama (to the highest it has been since 1946) and would have escalated further under a Democratic Congress. History is replete with examples, from the former Soviet Union to East Germany, China, Cuba, North Korea, etc., that illustrate Tea Partiers' legitimate fears. When government encroaches on commercial liberties, the end result is a failed civil state. Economic and civil liberties go hand in hand."

Sheffield's work has been published by The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, American Spectator and The Daily Caller.

Sheffield is from a multigenerational Mormon family, and formally left the LDS Church in 2010.^[11] She is the sister of blogger and activist Matthew Sheffield^[12] and the niece of beauty queen Charlotte Sheffield, former Miss USA.^{[13] [14]}

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