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
November 5, 2013 // Updated: January 9, 2014
By Betty Casey
The long-awaited, controversial A-F assessment of your child’s school will be released by the State Department of Education this week. After several miscalculations by the State Department and many postponements, the grades are ready to be released,… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
November 4, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
In 2010 in Oklahoma, just under half of the state’s residents of color owned their own homes, compared to three-quarters of the state’s white residents. Home ownership is a key element of economic mobility and has has been key to… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
November 3, 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 30, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This post was written by OK Policy intern Carly Putnam. Carly is an undergraduate at the University of Tulsa majoring in Sociology and Women’s & Gender Studies. She can be found on Twitter at @CarlyPutnam.
The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program,… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
October 26, 2013 // Updated: November 8, 2013
By Susan Hylton
Domestic oil and gas production is discussed with great passion today among those who talk of an energy renaissance that is revolutionizing the industry and perhaps U.S. policy.
They credit new hydraulic fracturing technologies in horizontal drilling… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
October 21, 2013 // Updated: November 8, 2013
By Kurt Gwartney
You can click through to the original article to hear the panel discussion moderated by Kate Richey on Oklahoma’s economic development at our Summer Policy Institute. Links to other SPI panel discussions can be found here.
A… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
October 20, 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 17, 2013 // Updated: November 8, 2013
The Associated Press
The Oklahoma Bar Association plans to honor six individuals and organizations for promoting diversity in Oklahoma.
Each will receive the Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Diversity Award during the annual Oklahoma Bar Association Diversity Conference on Oct. 24.… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
October 13, 2013 // Updated: October 17, 2013
OK Policy director David Blatt, with Jonathan Willner, Economics Department Chair at the Oklahoma City University Meinders School of Business, and Fred Morgan, President of the State Chamber of Oklahoma, discuss widening income inequality and its impact on Oklahoma.
http://www.oeta.tv/video/3653.html… 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...]