She is the senior pastor of Cass Community United Methodist Church and the executive director of Cass Community Social Services (CCSS), a large nonprofit in Detroit that serves more than 700,000 meals a year and houses about 300 homeless people per night alongside a day program, medical clinics, and a job center.
[3] Fowler's focus on sustainability and jobs has helped address income inequality in Detroit by creating jobs for homeless people and people under the poverty line, through products like mud mats made of repurposed illegally dumped tires, coasters made wood sourced from demolished houses, and Detroit-branded sandals.
Her expansion of CCSS's programs and properties has increased the number of homeless people who have successfully moved into transitional housing.
[7] Fowler felt the call to pastorship in junior high, but was told by her church's pastor that she was "wrong".
[1] Fowler has also served as an adjunct professor at University of Michigan-Dearborn,[7] a board member for the Cass Corridor Neighborhood Development Corporation, an advisory board member of the Detroit Area Agency on Aging, and chaired the Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority Advisory Committee.