Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She is a writer and policy practitioner.

Professor Schuettpelz currently serves as an Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Planning and Public Affairs (SPPA) at the University of Iowa. She is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies for SPPA. Her policy areas of expertise include Tribal policy, homelessness, and affordable housing. She is the recipient of a 2025 Mellon Foundation grant to support her work as the Director of the Native Policy Lab.

Prior to joining the faculty at Iowa, Professor Schuettpelz was a policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, focusing especially on homelessness and Tribal policy. Prior to that, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds a Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Professor Schuettpelz's first book, The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America was the recipient of the Whiting Nonfiction Grant. Her second book, Trust: How Native Land Was Stolen and How We Get It Back is forthcoming from Flatiron Books. She is represented by Ayesha Pande.