Unchanging
Principles
Life inside my presidential family
BY JOSH CARTER
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Episode 12 – The VEO-IBD Foundation
Sarah and I are excited to announce that we have started The VEO-IBD Foundation, the first and only organization dedicated to parents and caregivers of children with Very Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease. This episode tells the story of our struggle with VEO-IBD and the creation of our foundation. VEO-IBD is an autoimmune disease that presents … Read more
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Josh Carter
Josh Carter is the fourth grandchild of President Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. He is married to his middle school sweetheart, Sarah Carter, and they have two boys—Charlie and Jonathan.
Josh is the co-founder and CEO of The VEO-IBD Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Atlanta, Georgia, dedicated to parents and caregivers of children with Very Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
As the host of the Unchanging Principles podcast, Josh talks about his life and the lessons he learned from his presidential family. Additionally, he continues his grandmother Rosalynn Carter’s advocacy for family caregivers. Josh is one of the 53 million Americans who have interrupted their lives to care for a loved one. He speaks around the country on the challenges of caregiving, most recently at George Washington University, the Times Center in New York, the United Nations, WABE, the Today Show, and at the White House during the Biden administration. Josh shares his and his grandmother’s caregiving stories in Bradley Cooper’s new PBS documentary Caregiving.
Josh has spent his life watching his grandparents build and run The Carter Center in Atlanta. He is on The Carter Center’s Board of Councilors, and he volunteers for The Carter Center often. In April of 2025, he traveled to Liberia to transition Africa’s first homegrown mental health program from The Carter Center’s care to the Liberian government. Josh speaks on his grandparents’ behalf extensively, including at US Navy events, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and President Carter’s state funeral at the National Cathedral. Josh is dedicated to elevating the principles that his grandparents taught him about service, duty, democracy, human rights, and peace.
Episodes
Episode 12 – The VEO-IBD Foundation
September 14, 2024
Sarah and I are excited to announce that we have started The VEO-IBD Foundation, the first and only organization dedicated to parents and caregivers of children with Very Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease. This episode tells the story of our struggle with VEO-IBD and the creation of our foundation. VEO-IBD is an autoimmune disease that
Episode 11 – Rosalynn Carter
November 19, 2023
My grandmother Rosalynn Carter passed away this afternoon. Even though she was 96, and even though she lived one of the best lives anybody could ask for, it’s still hard. She was a wonderful First Lady, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. I put together an episode with my initial thoughts about how her legacy of caregiving
Episode 10 – Carter Hall at the United States Naval Academy
February 24, 2023
The Naval Academy has named one of its main classroom buildings after my grandfather Jimmy Carter. Every Midshipman at the Naval Academy will now learn humanities, engineering, and language arts in Carter Hall. I was grateful to accept this honor on behalf of my grandfather last Friday. I was in Annapolis when my grandfather released
Episode 8 – War and the Peace Prize
April 4, 2022
On February 24, I watched in horror as Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. I’m sure you did too. It was just surreal. It was footage that looked like it belonged in a different era. Since then, the world has changed and is changing still. New global alliances are reforming. Old geopolitical pressures, like the previously
Episode 7 – January 6
January 7, 2022
America’s Democracy is in peril. Donald Trump incited his followers to overturn the will of the American People in a failed, bloody coup on January 6, 2021. This attack on The United States, this attack on our Constitution, this attack on Democracy itself should have been the end of Donald Trump. Sadly, 1 year later,
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Trip Report – Monrovia, Liberia
April 24, 2025
I led The Carter Center’s delegation to Monrovia, Liberia, from April 5 to 11, 2025, to celebrate the development of Africa’s first national mental health program. Read my trip report here!
Mike Luckovich
November 20, 2023
For those of you who don’t live in Atlanta, Mike Luckovich is a legend. He has done a few cartoons about my grandparents recently, but this one is just beautiful. He just posted it, and it appears in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on 11/21.
Shipmate Magazine – Carter Hall
August 20, 2023
Shipmate Magazine is the alumni publication for the United States Naval Academy. I wrote an article them about my experience telling my grandfather about the renaming ceremony for Carter Hall.
A Celebration of Annette Carter
September 28, 2021
Annette Davis Carter was born in Arlington, Georgia on November 5, 1952, to George and Dorothy Davis. She died on September 19, 2021, at the age of 68.