Carol C. Darr

Carol C. Darr served as general counsel to the Democratic National Committee, as counsel to two presidential campaigns, and as a senior political appointee in both the Clinton and Obama Administrations during her four-decades-long career in law, government, and politics in Washington, DC. Midway through, she returned to academia, earning a masters in literature from Cambridge University, where she studied Niccolò Machiavelli's philosophy and political advice, a subject that has fascinated her ever since she first read The Prince as an undergraduate. Later, she led George Washington University's Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet, and taught graduate-level courses on new media and on Machiavelli. She later taught politics and new Media at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.