Carrie Garrow is a member of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and was raised at the Akwesasne Territory in New York. She earned her A.B. from Dartmouth College, J.D. from Stanford Law School, and a Master's in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Ms. Garrow is a former deputy district attorney, Chief Judge of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Courts, and the co-author of the forthcoming Tribal Criminal Law and Procedure. She has worked with several Indigenous Nations, including the Oglala Sioux Tribe on a participatory evaluation of the federally funded criminal justice initiative, Comprehensive Indian Resources for Community and Law Enforcement and the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians on juvenile justice reform.  Ms Garrow has also worked as a consultant for Tribal Law and Policy Institute, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, and the Native Nations Institute.