Bonnie Carroll is an American widow who is the president and founder of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), an organization that provides care, welfare and support to people who have lost a loved one in military service.

[5] In 2003, she also obtained a Diploma in International Relations and Conflict Resolution from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

[7] Carroll served with two POTUS: as liaison for President Ronald Reagan with his Cabinet, where she coordinated domestic and economic policies, she also served with President George H. W. Bush in his Counsel's Office, where she assisted the legal review process for presidential nominees to the Cabinet.

His father Thomas P. Carroll, served as Alaska's first National Guard adjutant general, and was also killed in a plane crash in 1964.

[13][14] In 1994, Carroll founded TAPS, a non-profit organization that provides care, welfare and comfort to those who have lost a relative or loved ones in the military.