Carroll Fife

As a teenager, Fife, the middle of three children, worked in Muskegon Heights, Michigan.

[1] After becoming a parent, she settled in Pasadena, California and then moved to Oakland in 1999 to create a small school.

[2] Fife received national attention in 2019 as the co-founder of Moms 4 Housing, a group of Black mothers who occupied a vacant corporate-owned West Oakland home, advocating that housing should be recognized as a basic human right.

[4] Fife won her 2020 election to the Oakland City Council, defeating the two-term incumbent by nearly 20 percentage points.

[7] In November 2023, the Associated Press reported that Fife's resolution to call for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war passed the Oakland City Council 8–0, unanimously.