Carrie Sheffield is founder of Bold, a multimedia news & cultural platform, and senior contributor for Opportunity Lives.

Carrie hosted an online TV show for The Washington Times and has appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, MSNBC, HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Fusion and The Blaze. Carrie has written for The Wall Street Journal, TIME, USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, American Spectator and Daily Caller.

After beginning her journalism career in Washington with the late columnist Robert Novak, she covered Congress for The Hill newspaper and was a founding reporter at POLITICO. She later wrote editorials for The Washington Times under the late Tony Blankley.

Passionate about foreign affairs, Carrie reported on the 25th anniversary of perestroika in Moscow, North-South Korean relations from Seoul, the Beijing Olympics in China, and Egyptian political reforms in Cairo. She also wrote on geopolitical positioning and freedom of speech in Qatar and was a correspondent for The Jerusalem Post covering the Israeli parliament.

PR lead for Silicon Harlem, Carrie is a New York Leader with Foreign Policy Initiative, member of The National Press Club, The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Young Leaders Circle and advisory board member of Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program.

Carrie spent several years in financial services. At Goldman Sachs, she managed credit risk on a portfolio with potential exposure $1.97 billion. At Moody’s, she led analysis on a $5.5 billion bond portfolio. She later researched for Edward Conard, Bain Capital founding partner and American Enterprise Institute scholar, and served as Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow at Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Carrie earned a master’s in public policy from Harvard University, concentrating in business policy. She has a B.A. in communications at Brigham Young University and completed a Fulbright fellowship in Berlin.