Carrie is a researcher, planning consultant, writer, project manager and administrator dedicated to arts and culture with a specialization in the performing arts. Since 2006, Carrie has led or contributed to more than 300 studies and plans including research studies, market studies, assessments, feasibility studies, business plans, strategic plans, and cultural plans for communities, organizations, and institutions across the United States. She also serves as a grant panelist for regranting and service organizations.

In 2023, Carrie has collaborated with three arts consulting practices in research and planning work across performing arts, museum and cultural clients. These firms include ADC Consulting, Amy Kaufman Cultural Planning and Webb Mgmt, where she was a senior consultant for 18 years and continues as an affiliate and collaborator. Selected projects include the business planning for expanded arts education facilities at the Institute of Music for Children (NJ), a market study for the Wildstein Center at South Florida State College and a research study led by ADC Consulting which aims to understand the role, impacts and ongoing evolution of arts service, intermediary, and regranting organizations in a post-pandemic world.

Over the last 10 years, Carrie has conducted extensive research on New York City dance in collaboration with Dance/NYC, addressing topics like fiscal sponsorship, entities with budgets of less than $1M, the impacts of the pandemic on the dance field and rehearsal space in support the New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program made possible by the Mellon Foundation. She is currently completing research on the size, makeup, and prospects for New York City's dance industry as part of Dance/NYC’s groundbreaking Dance Industry Census.

Previously, Carrie was a musician, producer, presenter, marketer, and fundraiser for non-profit and university-based arts entities such as the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (WI) and Peak Performances at Montclair State University (NJ.) She is a proud alumna of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.