Caroline Shinkle

For an evening out, Caroline Shinkle says she likes Cafe Fiorello before a performance at Lincoln Center.¹ Her route to Manhattan included an economics degree from MIT, a law degree from Harvard and experience at several central banks.²

Her biography lists work at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., and stints at the Bank of Israel and European Central Bank.² During law school, she also spent time at the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland.² As a corporate attorney, she advised businesses and financial institutions on mergers, capital markets and financial regulation.²

She spent a semester at Sciences Po in Paris, taking her classes in French.² She is also a member of the performers' union SAG-AFTRA and says she founded a nonprofit encouraging civic engagement among young people.² She frames her campaign around economic freedom and the ability to build a company, career or family in New York.¹

She is the 12th District's Republican candidate.³ Shinkle proposes reducing federal income tax on wages, expanding housing supply through construction and office conversions, and balancing the federal budget.⁴ She also supports school choice, vocational training, healthcare price transparency and stronger resources for law enforcement, while identifying antisemitism as a central concern.⁴