Carolann Wright

Carolann Wright is a Canadian activist and politician. Born in Nova Scotia, Wright lived in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood in the 1980s, where she was chair of the community residents association.

Wright was born the eldest of eight children in Beechville, Nova Scotia, a small Black community outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia where her family had lived since the 1800s. After attending Dalhousie University, she moved to Toronto in the 1970s to study commerce at York University. As a result of a failed relationship, she ended up homeless and living in a homeless shelter before re-establishing herself in the Regent Park neighbourhood of Toronto. She ultimately graduated from York, and found a job as a community worker running computer literacy classes for underprivileged children.

She ran against sitting mayor Art Eggleton in the 1988 Toronto municipal election, placing second with 17% of the vote.