Staff
Carmen Hooker Odom

Carmen Hooker Odom is advisor to the president and former president of the Fund. Her previous positions include secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services; vice president of government relations for Quintiles Transnational Corporation in Research Triangle Park; group vice president for Carolinas HealthCare System; and member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for nearly eleven years. She received a bachelor's degree in sociology and political science from Springfield College and a master's degree in regional planning from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.