Carol C. Darr has been the director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet since November 2001. She is an associate research professor at the Graduate School of Political Management of The George Washington University. During the Clinton-Gore Administration, she served as the acting general counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce and as associate administrator of the Office of International Affairs in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. In the 1992 election, Carol served as general counsel to the Democratic National Committee. Previously, she had served as the chief counsel to the Dukakis/Bentsen Presidential Committee in 1988 and as the deputy counsel to the Carter/Mondale Presidential Committee in 1980. She also worked as a staff attorney at the Federal Election Commission. She received an M.Litt in History from Christ’s College, Cambridge University, and a J.D. and a B.A. from the University of Memphis.