Chelsea Follett
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Chelsea Follett is a research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, working with Human Progress, a project of the Cato Institute that seeks to educate the public on the global improvements in well-being by providing free empirical data on long-term developments. She is the author of the books The Grim Old Days: An Introduction to the Preindustrial Past (2026) and Centers of Progress: 40 Cities That Changed the World (2023). Her writing has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, USA Today, US News & World Report, Newsweek, Forbes, The Hill, Business Insider, National Review, Washington Examiner, Reason, the Richmond Times Dispatch, and the Virginian-Pilot, among other outlets. She was named to Forbes’s 30 under 30 list for 2018 in the category of law & policy. Follett earned a BA magna cum laude in government and English from the College of William & Mary, as well as an MA in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia, where she focused on international relations and political theory. She lives in Virginia with her husband and children.
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