AARP Hearing Center
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Taxation, retirement security, employment, low-income assistance, personal and legal rights.
ABOUT
Karen Lyons is a director for economic issues in AARP’s Office of Policy Development and Integration. In this role, she leads the development of AARP's public policies on a wide range of issues including taxation, retirement security, employment, low-income assistance, and personal and legal rights. She also works to incorporate these policies into AARP's activities throughout the organization.
Before joining AARP, Lyons spent nearly 10 years at the Pew Charitable Trusts, where she served as a senior manager for the Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative. Lyons oversaw the creation of a cloud-based benefit-cost model, as well as a process that allowed state and local governments to inventory the programs they funded and determine if they were effective based on rigorous evidence. Lyons also worked at the Virginia Department of Taxation, where she helped develop the revenue forecast; DC’s Office of Revenue Analysis, where she prepared fiscal impact statements for proposed legislation; and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where she focused on the impact of fiscal policies, such as tax and expenditure limits, on states.
Lyons holds a master’s in public affairs from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
CONTACT
Email: klyons@aarp.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-lyons-b486624/
For media inquiries call 202-434-2560 or e-mail media@aarp.org.