
Carol Burnett
Carol is founder and executive director of the Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative. She is also executive director of Moore Community House, a nonprofit providing affordable child care and job training in nontraditional occupations for low-income single mothers in Biloxi. Carol served as Mississippi’s federal child care administrator at the Department of Human Services during the Musgrove Administration.
Carol served as NGO delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, attended the White House Summit on Working Families during the Obama Administration, and worked with the Center for American Progress Faith and Reproductive Justice Institute.
Her awards include the Ms. Foundation Gloria Award, Outstanding Woman of the Gulf Coast Award, Mississippi Religious Leadership Conference Founder’s Award, and MS State NAACP Vernon Dahmer award. Carol graduated from Union Theological Seminary in New York, and is a United Methodist minister, one of the first women in Mississippi to be ordained.