Carrie Glenn

Carrie is the Senior Vice President of External Relations at The Network, where she promotes bipartisan cooperation on evidence-based solutions to America’s greatest challenges. She helps create platforms for bold leaders who take on big problems, and connects lawmakers with leading philanthropists and policy experts in health care, infrastructure, criminal justice, higher education, and energy. 

 

Prior to joining The Network, Carrie served as the Director of Coalitions and Communications for the Justice Action Network, the country’s largest bipartisan criminal justice reform organization. In that role, she worked with partners and advocates from across the political spectrum to develop effective, diverse, and multi-layered messaging strategies on federal and state legislation, including the First Step Act and the Fair Chance Act. 

 

She spent more than a decade in electoral politics, managing grassroots campaigns for candidates at the local, state and federal levels. Carrie worked on the campaigns of President Barack Obama, Senator Jon Tester, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, among others, and was part of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's Independent Expenditure program in 2016.

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A native of Oregon, Carrie attended the University of Oregon, where she studied Political Science and Art History.