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
July 11, 2013 // Updated: September 12, 2013
By Jerry Wofford, Tulsa World
A high-ranking state official says tax breaks for oil and gas drilling held back more robust growth of the state’s general revenue fund in the last fiscal year, adding that legislators should examine the effect… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
July 10, 2013 // Updated: September 12, 2013
By Jaime Adame, Urban Tulsa Weekly
Many have called it a step in the right direction. But the much-anticipated Leavitt Partners report still leaves plenty of unanswered questions.
“If this was an attempt to make things more simple for people… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
July 9, 2013 // Updated: September 12, 2013
By Jaclyn Cosgrove, NewsOK
I was waiting on the state Board of Health meeting to start today when I got a tweet about a news story from News Channel 4. The story was about the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, which… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
July 7, 2013 // Updated: September 12, 2013
By D.E. Smoot, Muskogee Phoenix
Analysts with the Oklahoma Policy Institute contend the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act would benefit Oklahoma businesses and uninsured workers.
An analysis of the 2011 American Community Survey shows there are 143,150… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
June 26, 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.
Virginia made headlines earlier this… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
June 24, 2013 // Updated: September 12, 2013
This editorial was prompted by OK Policy’s report “Closing the Opportunity Gap: Building Equity in Oklahoma.” OK Policy analyst Kate Richey penned an editorial in response, which The Oklahoman declined to publish.
By The Oklahoman Editorial Board
Oklahoma’s history undeniably… Read more [More...]
By: Carly Putnam
June 4, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Yousef Khanfar is a noted author and photographer. In his latest project, Invisible Eve, he turns his lens on incarcerated Oklahoma women, presenting their images and words in an effort to reach empathy and understanding. Here is Yousef’s artist statement… Read more [More...]