Carrie Walton Penner
Carrie Walton Penner is the granddaughter of Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, and the daughter of former company chairman S. Robson Walton.
Walton Penner is an influential figure in the charter school movement. She is a co-owner of the Denver Broncos.
Education
She attended private school at The Governor's Academy in Newbury, Massachusetts.She graduated prep school in 1988, and then went to Georgetown, and studied economics and history. In the mid-1990s, she was involved in education issues and earned a master's degree in Education Policy and Program Evaluation at Stanford University.
Career
Walton-Penner has been the education program committee chair for the Walton Family Foundation, an evaluator for the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship and had internships at the Rockefeller Foundation, Aaron Diamond Foundation, and Academy for Educational Development. She was also a research analyst for an evaluation of the Michigan Mathematics and Science Centers for Woodside Research Consortium.On August 9, 2022, the NFL owners approved the purchase of the Denver Broncos by the Walton-Penner group. In her role, she is actively engaged with Broncos ownership and executives on all matters related to the organization.