Carrie is an alum of the Groundlings Comedy Theatre, where she performs, teaches and habitually abuses her position of authority.

Her comedic essay "Outsourcing Love” – which documents the shameless hiring of a virtual assistant in India to manage her love life – was recently optioned for a feature film. 

Carrie earned a master's in journalism from Northwestern University and a minor in nerdalism from high school engineering camp. She regularly contributes humorous essays and videos to the New York Post, political satire to JibJab.com and fierce dating exposés to the Tyra Banks Show. She has also reported on “serious” news – like Capitol Hill politics, immigration policy reform and Lindsay Lohan’s panties – for Channel One News, National Geographic Television and Newsday (not necessarily in that order).

Carrie is a member of The Deviants sketch comedy group and was invited to perform her original sketch show, “Midwestern Wisdom,” at the prestigious Comedy Central Stage in Los Angeles. She had a recurring role on E!'s Seven Deadly Hollywood Sins and supplied one of the most awkward dating stories in our nation’s majestic history to the book Mortified: Love is a Battlefield.

Carrie’s last name means "farm by the sea" in Norway. In America it means "kitten with a whip."