Carly Putnam joined OK Policy in 2013. As Policy Director, she supervises policy research and strategy. She previously worked as an OK Policy intern, and she was OK Policy's health care policy analyst through July 2020. She graduated from the University of Tulsa in 2013. As a student, she was a participant in the National Education for Women (N.E.W.) Leadership Institute and interned with Planned Parenthood. Carly is a graduate of the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits Nonprofit Management Certification; the Oklahoma Developmental Disabilities Council’s Partners in Policymaking; The Mine, a social entrepreneurship fellowship in Tulsa; and Leadership Tulsa Class 62. She currently serves on the boards of Restore Hope Ministries and The Arc of Oklahoma. In her free time, she enjoys reading, cooking, and doing battle with her hundred year-old house.
By: Carly Putnam
October 7, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
On October 29, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) will host Jacqueline Steyn, Chief Programs and Compliance Officer of YWCA Oklahoma City, to deliver “Domestic Violence: The Hidden Epidemic” as part of its Practice and Policy Lecture Series. Ms.… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
October 6, 2013 // Updated: July 25, 2015
The Weekly Wonk is a summary of Oklahoma Policy Institute’s events, publications, blog posts, and coverage. Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In The Know. Click here to subscribe to In The Know.… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
October 3, 2013 // Updated: October 17, 2013
By Maeve Reston
The nation’s healthcare law was written with the residents of rural counties like Choctaw in mind. A quarter of the Oklahomans who live in the ranch country near the southeastern corner of the state are uninsured, one… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
October 2, 2013 // Updated: October 15, 2013
Peoples Bank Tulsa must pay a $20,000 fine to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for discriminatory lending practices.
Regulators say the bank charged Hispanic borrowers higher rates on car loans than similar non-Hispanic borrowers. The filing, made public earlier this… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
September 30, 2013 // Updated: October 15, 2013
By Brian Hardzinski and Kurt Gwartney
You can click through to the original article hear the entire “Poverty and the Safety Net” panel discussion moderated by Linda Edmondson at our Summer Policy Institute.
Census Bureau data released in September show… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
September 29, 2013 // Updated: July 25, 2015
The Weekly Wonk is a summary of Oklahoma Policy Institute’s events, publications, blog posts, and coverage. Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In The Know. Click here to subscribe to In The Know.… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
September 20, 2013 // Updated: October 17, 2013
OK Policy analyst Gene Perry discusses OK Policy’s report on state educational funding cuts, which found that Oklahoma had made the deepest cuts per pupil of any state in the US.
http://www.oeta.tv/video/3635.html… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
September 18, 2013 // Updated: October 15, 2013
By Arnold Hamilton
When it comes to ObamaCare, state Insurance Commissioner John Doak should be indicted for political malpractice.
With important elements of the new federal law coming online Oct. 1, you’d expect Oklahoma’s public servants to be hard at… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
September 16, 2013 // Updated: October 15, 2013
By Kurt Gwartney
You can click through to the original article hear the panel discussion moderated by Megan Benn on Oklahoma’s changing political landscape at our Summer Policy Institute.
It wasn’t long ago that to be involved in a meaningful… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
September 12, 2013 // Updated: October 15, 2013
by Emory Bryan
Oklahoma has earned a top ranking in education, by cutting more dollars from education since the recession than any other state.
A new study from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities puts Oklahoma at number one… Read more [More...]
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On October 29, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) will host Jacqueline Steyn, Chief Programs and Compliance Officer of YWCA Oklahoma City, to deliver “Domestic Violence: The Hidden Epidemic” as part of its Practice and Policy Lecture Series. Ms.… Read more [More...]
The Weekly Wonk is a summary of Oklahoma Policy Institute’s events, publications, blog posts, and coverage. Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In The Know. Click here to subscribe to In The Know.… Read more [More...]
