Biography

Carrie Lukas

Carrie L. Lukas is director of policy for the Independent Women's Forum. Lukas entered the public policy arena when she joined the Cato Institute's Project on Social Security Choice in 1997. While working as a Cato analyst, she wrote several policy studies and published op-eds in numerous prominent newspapers, including the Richmond Times Dispatch and The Washington Post. Lukas has already had a distinguished career defending economic liberty and personal responsibility.

While pursuing graduate studies at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Lukas authored op-eds on school choice which appeared in notable publications such as The Atlanta Journal Constitution and USA Today. While at Harvard, Lukas was a strong voice for liberty, writing a regular column for the campus newspaper and authoring studies on education for the Cato Institute.

After receiving her graduate degree, Lukas accepted a position as the senior domestic policy analyst for the House Republican Policy Committee under the stewardship of Chairman Christopher Cox. Thereafter, she joined the professional staff for the House Select Committee on Homeland Security of the U.S. House of Representatives. Lukas covered a wide range of topics in the US Congress, including regulatory reform, tax policy, and budget issues.

Since joining the Independent Women's Forum in 2003, Lukas has authored the IWF special reports, Dependency Divas: How the Feminist Big Government Agenda Betrays Women and Recess from Reality: The Feminist Failure to Embrace School Choice. Additionally, she has written IWF position papers on social security and tax policy. Lukas is a regular fixture on opinion pages around the nation, and has appeared on numerous radio, cable and network television programs including National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation and The Connections, Janet Parshall's America, the Glenn Sacks Show, CNBC's The Dennis Miller Show, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and MSNBC's Scarborough Country.

Lukas holds a bachelor of arts from Princeton University and a master's in public policy from Harvard University.