She graduated from Tallwood High School and Virginia Wesleyan College, where she majored in Psychology and Criminal Justice.
[3] After earning her Master's degree in Education at the Old Dominion University, she began teaching at Lynnhaven Elementary.
[4] Fowler ran to be a delegate in Virginia's 2017 election against incumbent Ron Villanueva (also a Filipino American).
During the 2020 special session, Fowler abstained on HB5013 which was intended to end qualified immunity for law enforcement following the 2020 summer Black Lives Matter protests.
Her abstention was due to her own husband, David Fowler, being a deputy sheriff, which effectively killed the bill.
Although the position serves at the pleasure of the sheriff, Fowler then sued, claiming he was wrongly fired.