Carolyn A. Emigh, JD and economist, emphasizes postal rates and regulation and charitable fund raising. She performs economic analysis including damage calculations, evaluation of fund raising programs and contracts, market studies, and intellectual property. She assists nonprofit organizations to comply with accounting rules that govern allocation of the cost of activities that contain a charitable solicitation and testifies in court as an expert witness and otherwise supports litigation counsel.

She serves as economic counsel to the Direct Marketing Association Nonprofit Federation and is a member of the Mailers Technical Advisory Committee to the Postmaster General in Washington, DC. The Postal Service has awarded the "Industry Excellence Award" to her.

Ms. Emigh is a frequent workshop instructor. The Postal Service has invited her to be a panelist at the National Postal Forum. National associations, universities, private conference planners, and individual organizations and companies regularly engage Ms. Emigh to conduct seminars on postal rates and regulation, charitable fund raising, and compliance with specialized accounting rules. They also retain her to evaluate the cost effectiveness of fund raising and public education programs.

Ms. Emigh is recognized for her work with Dr. W. Edwards Deming who taught her systems design for never ending improvement in quality to achieve lower costs.

Ms. Emigh taught economics at the University of Virginia. Between 1972 and 1980, she was staff economist in the U.S. House of Representatives and economic policy advisor to the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate.

Ms. Emigh received her bachelor's degree from Pitzer College in Claremont, California and completed the graduate program at The Johns Hopkins University in 1972 in international economics. She also studied at the Institut d'Etudes Francaises, in Avignon, France and The Johns Hopkins Bologna Center, in Bologna, Italy. She received a Juris Doctorate from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.