Executive Assistant

critz@pewforum.org 

Carla Ritz is the executive assistant for the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. Before joining the Pew Research Center, Carla served as the executive director/finance director for the Infant Development Program in Pennsylvania, chief operating officer for CEO Fellowship in Tennessee, and as the executive assistant to the CEO of a national sportswear chain. She also worked in elementary and middle schools in the areas of social work and speech-language therapy.

Carla has a bachelor’s degree in speech and hearing sciences from the University of Arizona and completed an internship in the chaplain’s office at Yale University.