As a founder and President of The Legacy Institute, Carrie is the lead educator and go-to expert on philosophy and content for the Legacy Institute. Carrie oversees research and development of theology and curriculum at Legacy, serves as a consultant to other organizations, and teaches nationwide.

With almost 20 years of teaching, Carrie is a tremendously popular national speaker. She is considered by her colleagues as one of the best communicators and leading innovators on the topic of relationships and human sexuality.  She has spoken to tens of thousands of people all across the nation, in venues as diverse as:  state legislatures, churches, universities, youth events, medical associations, conferences, banquets, broadcast radio & TV and is featured in several video series.

A few more facts:

• Carrie is the author of The Sexual Integrity Program, An innovative program used by Pregnancy Resource Centers in 49 states
• Carrie authored and is featured in The Biblical Blueprint for Sexual Integrity video series and material used nationwide and internationally
• Carrie is one of the first recipients of The Community Impact Award from Families Northwest in Washington State
• Carrie is the lead developer of Authentic Sexuality Education (a K-12 relationship curricula due out in 2008)
• Carrie is a consultant to many authors, an advisor to The National Abstinence Clearinghouse, Healing the Culture, Heartbeat International, and has assisted many well-known leaders.  
• Carrie has been in ministry since she was 17. She has served for years in youth work, served 13 years with an abstinence program (8 years as Director), has trained hundreds of teachers nationwide, mentored young married couples with her husband and spent many years in a variety of other ministry opportunities.
• Carrie worked for Merrill Lynch, Oppenheimer and a securities litigation expert, and received her securities license in the process.  She also started her own event planning business - The Main Event, where she planned events, and weddings for 8 years.
• Carrie attended a variety of colleges, including Bible College in Sweden and England, where she met her husband Greg.  They are happily married, have five children, two grandchildren and live in the Seattle area.
• Carrie needed more to do so she and Greg chose to home-school their five children for nine years, till she admits, “she just got tired” and put them in private school. 

What Carrie Likes:

Ice-cream (the fattening kind), soup on a cold day, candles, new shoes, sunshine, family and friends, funny people, a cogent argument, truth, history, the sermons of Charles Spurgeon, passion in action, teaching, decorating, gardening, the color green, a bargain, her Bible. 

What Carrie Dislikes:

Baby shower games, mean people, hot peppers, airports, plastic flowers, liars, death in any form, willful ignorance, telemarketing calls, bad hair, feminism that doesn’t help women and emasculates men, unpatriotic attitudes, legalism, evil, fake butter, ironing.

 Washington Public Schools (partial list)

Evergreen Junior High	Auburn Riverside HS	Finn Hill Junior High
Rainier MS	Inglewood Junior High	Chinook MS
Kamiakin Junior High	Tillicum MS	Kirkland Junior High
Redmond Junior High	Tyee MS	Bellevue HS
Rose Hill Junior High	Sammamish HS	Newport HS
Lake Washington HS	College Place MS	Redmond HS
Edmonds Woodway HS	Bothell HS	Hazen HS
Meadowdale HS	McKnight MS	Mountlake Terrace HS
Sacajawea MS	Liberty HS	Renton HS
Totem MS	Issaquah HS	Decatur HS
Lindbergh HS	Ingraham HS	Kent Meridian HS
Thomas Jefferson HS	Washington MS	Kentridge HS
Leota Junior High	Pacific MS	Beaver Lake MS
Kenmore Junior High	Canyon Park Junior High	Northshore Junior High
Seattle Alternative School	Skyview Junior High	Issaquah HS
Islander MS	Mercer Islalnd HS	Hamilton MS
Einstein MS	Shorecrest HS	Valley View MS
Chief Kanum MS

 Washington Churches (partial list)

Aldersgate United Methodist	The Neighborhood Church	St. Mary’s
Cedar Park Assembly	Crossroads Baptist	Northshore Baptist
Bellevue Church of Christ	Newport Covenant	Westminster Chapel
First Presbyterian of Bellevue	Kenmore Baptist	Antioch Bible
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton	Northlake Christian	Canyon Hills Community
Overlake	Eastside Foursquare	First Lutheran of Bellevue
Bothell Free Methodist	Covington Community	Edgewood Baptist
Westgate Chapel	Cornerstone Bible	Enumclaw Christian
Calvary Baptist	Kent Covenant	Saint John Vianney
Christ Church of Kirkland	Martha Lake Covenant	St. Luke’s Episcopal
Woodinville Alliance	North Seattle Christian	Northlake Christian
Mercer Island Covenant	Mercer Island Presbyterian	Cascade Covenant
May Valley Alliance	Renton Assembly	Highlands Community
Holy Family	DesMoines Gospel Chapel	The Duvall Church
Cascade Community