Carew Boulding joined the department of Political Science at the University of Colorado as an assistant professor in 2007. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego and her B.A. from the University of Washington. Her current research examines the role of non-governmental organizations in local politics in developing democracies, focusing on quantitative evidence from the municipal level in Bolivia. She is also interested in the politics of foreign aid.