Carrie Portrie
Program Manager, NH Listens, UNH Carsey School
Carrie holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and sociology from Roger Williams University, a master’s degree from the University of New Hampshire in early childhood special education, and a PhD from UNH in education with a focus on children and youth in communities. Carrie traveled back to her hometown Dover, NH after several years out West teaching children in community settings. She has since spent her studies and career focused on community-based policies, learning, and engagement to help systems work for everyone and resist marginalizing people. Her work with New Hampshire Listens focuses on local conversations and learning exchanges (e.g., childhood lead poisoning, community needs in northern NH, early childhood education and care), school-based dialogues and facilitation, program evaluation, and coalition building. She is committed to frameworks that focus on collaborative inquiry, reflection, and iterative designs that create spaces for people to connect the ideologies of policy to the realities of people’s lives.
