Carol Beach
Carol Beach is a former speech writer to First Lady Hillary Clinton. Beach began her career as a high school social studies
teacher and has spent most of her subsequent career working at the
intersection of media and government. She produced National Public
Radio’s The Diane Rehm Show from 1990 until 1997 and then served as a
speech writer for then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. After the Clinton
Administration left office, she helped found and served as Executive
Director of Understanding Government (see
www.understandinggov.org), a nonprofit foundation dedicated to
improving the performance of the executive branch by helping journalists
better cover it. Most recently, she has served as the Senior
Public Information Officer at
American
University.
