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Carol White

Healthcare Reform Activist

Carol White, MA Early Childhood Education, MPH, is the former manager of CVT’s National Capacity-building Project.  She has worked at CVT since 2000, managing the NCB project since 2004. She has a B.A. in psychology and an M.A. in early childhood education from Stanford University, and a Masters in Public Health from the University of Minnesota. She has managed primary care clinics and agencies for underserved populations (homeless adults and families, urban adolescents, low income urban pregnant women) in Minnesota for nine years previously.  She was the developer of a new homelessness prevention program that in 1993 received one of 10 national pilot program funding awards and subsequently received honorable mention in the first “Models that Work” competition sponsored by the federal Bureau of Primary Care. At CVT Carol also managed the Minnesota Mainstream Project, training health and human services providers across the state, and the Trauma Healing Initiative, a four year clinical train-the-trainers project in Cambodia.

In 2014 Carol retired from her position at CVT. She continues to work for healthcare reform in her free time. “Volunteer public outreach and advocacy about ACA enrollment and other issues of particular concern to low and middle income Minnesotans. Advocacy for universal healthcare and system reform to improve quality and safety, and decrease waste and fraud.”