Carol Darr

Carol Darr is the director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet at the Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University, where she is also an associate research professor. She has spent most of her career in national politics and government and served as the General Counsel to the Democratic National Committee in the 1992 presidential election. During the Clinton Administration, she served as the acting general counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce and as associate administrator of the Office of International Affairs in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. She was the chief counsel to the 1988 Dukakis/Bentsen Committee and deputy counsel to the 1980 Carter/Mondale Presidential Committee. She received a JD and a BA from the University of Memphis. As an adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School, Darr will teach a module titled “New Media and Contemporary American Politics.”