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Carol Hedges is the Executive Director of the Colorado Fiscal Institute.
She has been an important part of the research, policy and advocacy community in Colorado for more than 15 years.
She functioned as policy director for Governor Roy Romer in the late 1990s focusing on human service, education and budget policy.
While attending as a senior policy analyst with the Bell Policy Centre, she authored Ten Years of TABOR, a comprehensive study of the effects of Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. Lately as the Director of the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, a project of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy, Carol’s work concentrated on creating an adequate, sustainable and equitable revenue system in Colorado.
As a renowned expert on the effects of Colorado’s TABOR amendment, she has been involved in education efforts on TABOR-like proposals through the country.
Previous to moving to Colorado, she served as staff for the Human Service committee and the Agriculture and Natural Resources committee for the National Governors’ Association. She started her policy career as policy advisor to Gov. John Carlin of Kansas.
She graduated from Emporia State University in Emporia, Kan., and received a law degree from the University of Kansas.
She assists on the Board of Directors of Progress Now Colorado Education and FRESC: Good Job, Strong Communities.
She is a associate of the Leadership Advisory Committee of the Colorado Non-profit Association and was a formation member of the Steering Committee of the Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable.

She functioned as a technical advisor to Gov. Bill Ritter’s Blue Ribbon Transportation Panel and is a participant of the Steering Committee for Gov. John Hickenlooper’s statewide civic engagement project—TBD.
She also associates with the Colorado business community as a convener of the Colorado Reform Discussion.

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