November 19, 2025, 6:00 pm

Carolyn D. Gorman is a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute where her research examines U.S. mental health policy. Previously, Gorman was a data science and policy associate at the JPMorgan Chase Institute, an associate research scientist at the Coleridge Initiative, and the senior project manager for mental illness policy at Manhattan Institute. She served as vice chair of the board of the former Mental Illness Policy Org., a nonprofit founded by the late DJ Jaffe, and as staff on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Gorman’s writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, New York Post, City Journal, National Review, The Hill, and RealClearHealth, as well as the peer-reviewed Psychiatric Services and The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing. Gorman holds a B.A. from Binghamton University and an M.S. in public policy from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.