Kari McCarron has been the Senior Legislative Assistant for the MIT Washington Office since July of 2006 after working for the Division of Chemistry of the National Science Foundation.

Prior to her experience at the NSF, McCarron worked for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, helping to manage federal relations activities for its Center for Science, Technology, and Congress.

McCarron earned a MS in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technolgy, specializing in Science and Technology Policy, where she studied the use of public-private partnerships in federal research agencies. She also holds a BA from the University of Michigan in Economics and worked as an economist for several years at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics working with the International Price Program.

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