Political Columnist
Jessica Peck Corry
Serves as a public policy analyst with the Independence Institute, where she specializes in civil rights, higher education, and land use policy.
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Jessica, 28, has been a public policy analyst with the Independence Institute since 2003, and now heads the Institute's Property Rights Project and Campus Accountability Project. She has held leadership positions with more than 20 civic organizations and in 2006, as the Front Range Director of Colorado Citizens For Property Rights, helped champion legislative changes designed to strengthen the rights of property owners facing condemnation disputes. Jessica serves on the University of Colorado's Blue Ribbon Diversity Commission, where she is a leading voice for fiscal accountability and transparency.
At the age of 25, Jessica ran as a Republican for the Colorado Senate, where despite being outspent more than four-to-one, she garnered nearly 47 percent of the vote against a two-term incumbent. Jessica began her career as a press secretary in the United States Senate, working for U.S. Senators Fred Thompson, R-Tenn. and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and for the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.
In addition, Jessica has given campaign contributions and volunteer support to local, state and federal Republican candidates.
