Carol Rasco

Carol Rasco (née Hampton; born January 13, 1948) is an American political aide and advocate for disability rights, literacy, and children who served as Director of the Domestic Policy Council under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1996. She has been described as a trusted aide to the former president and governor and, during his absence due to his presidential campaign, was credited with running Arkansas' daily business. and also displayed an interest in politics. She was involved in fellow student Mack McLarty's campaign for student body president, who would become Clinton's chief of staff under the same administration in which she would work. In Bryant, Arkansas, she set up a psychological counseling system for the public school system, where she would continue working when her first son was born. In 1976, she met the Clintons during a coffee chat as Bill ran for state Attorney General, and she would later work with disability rights coalitions to lobby the Arkansas legislature to integrate and provide education for disabled children in school. carried out significant research on summer reading loss and celebrated its 50th anniversary. In 2016, she retired from Reading Is Fundamental.In 2013, Rasco was recognized for her literacy work in the eighth annual Carle Honors.

Politics Rasco began as the Director of Policy for the Arkansas Governor's Office, serving for ten years from the beginning of 1983 to the end of 1992. From 1985 to 1992, she served as Liaison to the National Governor's Association under Bill Clinton's terms as Arkansas governor; in this position, she worked primarily on child care, welfare reform, and healthcare reform, which she and Riley designed and implemented.

In 2001, Rasco briefly worked for College Board as a consultant on government relations before joining RIF.