From Capitol Hill Politics to the Tyra Banks Show: My Life as a Blogger, Web Writer and Sketch Comedian

Carrie Seim writes the humorous dating column "Single and Fierce" for The Tyra Banks Show and regularly contributes political satire to JibJab.com and relationship satire to BettyConfidential.com. She is a member of the sketch comedy group The Deviants and recently performed her original show Midwestern Wisdom at the prestigious Comedy Central Stage. Seim is an alum of the Groundlings Theatre, where she teaches improv. She has written about Capitol Hill politics, immigration policy reform, saltwater crocodiles and Paris Hilton's panties for Newsday, New York Post, National Geographic Television and The Tyra Banks Show - not necessarily in that order. Her comedic essay "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace" was recently published in Mortified: Love is a Battlefield. Seim has an undergraduate degree in journalism from Iowa State, a masters in journalism from Northwestern, and is an alum of Iowa State's Grandma Mojo. She will close with a brief performance. Part of the National Affairs Series.