The Grim Old Days

Chelsea Follett is a research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, working with HumanProgress.org, 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 Centers of Progress: 40 Cities That Changed the World. Her writing has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, Forbes, The Hill, Business Insider, National Review, Washington Examiner, and Reason, among other outlets. She was named to Forbes 30 under 30 list for 2018 in law and 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 four children.