Councilor Carol Voisin

First elected to Ashland City Council in 2008 with a term ending December 31, 2012.

Carol has always been active in government, business, and higher education teaching and administration.  Currently she is an instructor at SOU; previously she worked at Duke Divinity School in Durham and Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley.  Before moving to Ashland in 2002, Carol lived in Albany, California, where she owned a business that focused on finding employment for people over 40 years old.  She was politically active there, serving on the State Older Workers Commission.  In Ashland she serves on the Housing Commission, the Facilities Master Plan Committee, and ran for Congress in Oregon’s Second District in 2006.

Carol’s top priorities are fiscal responsibility, economic development, and practical sustainability.  She is a beginning organic gardener.  Her fundamental commitment is to listening, and she is open to input from all constituencies.  Her commitment to ethics, including her training in theology at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, informs her passion for politics in an integration of what humankind can and must be.