Carol Pass
Board of Directors
For the last 30 years, Carol has dedicated her life to improving the East Phillips neighborhood. Alongside her husband Brad, Carol has raised her children, foster parented, overseen housing developments, monitored crime control, mentored youth, and managed neighborhood beautification all within East Phillips.
Carol began as a housing board member on the People of Phillips before creating the East Phillips Improvement Coalition, where she spearheaded the East Phillips Park Cultural & Community Center and many affordable housing developments. She served on the East Phillips Commons Redevelopment, Village in Phillips Redevelopment, EPIC Community of Care, Bloomington/Cedar/Lake Commercial Association, East Phillips Housing, Bloomington Ave. Citizen's Patrol, High Lake Guidelines Committee, and currently, EPNI.
As a former philosophy instructor at the University of Minnesota, Augsburg, and Bethel colleges, Carol is a driven human rights and environmental activist. She has worked tirelessly to stop additional polluting industries from entering East Phillips and raised millions of dollars for the community. Carol’s overriding mission has always been to prevent more pollution from radically damaging the already health challenged, low-income community and reduce existing pollution in East Phillips.