In 2018, Jabola-Carolus helped the effort that codified Title IX into Hawaii state law.[3] In the same year, she also co-authored a study that exposed the high rate of online sex purchasing in Hawaii.[4] The release of the report led Jabola-Carolus to receive physical threats leading to a lockdown of her state office.[5] The study also alleged that police officers asked for sex in exchange for "looking the other way".[6]
Jabola-Carolus drove legislation allowing people to mark their gender as an "X" on their driver's license[1] as well as being involved in the effort to pass legislation allowing sex workers to vacate a prostitution conviction.[2] She also worked as director for the Hawaii Coalition for Immigrant Rights.[1]
In 2023, Jabola-Carolus coauthored a report on the Lahaina wildfires that determined that 1 in 6 female survivors were forced to survival sex in order to secure temporary shelter.[7] When the same statistic was quoted by United States secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem, Jabola-Carolus countered that the report's findings were being "twisted".[8]
Jabola-Carolus is the current executive director of the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women.[3] She is the only millennial in Hawaii to direct a statewide government agency.[2]
In July 2020, during COVID-19 lockdowns, Jabola-Carolus set her work email address to send the following out-of-office message:[9]
Aloha, Due to patriarchy, I am behind in emails. I hope to respond to your message soon, but, like many women, I am working full-time while tending to an infant and toddler full-time. According to the Washington Post, the average length of an uninterrupted stretch of work time for parents during COVID-19 was three minutes, 24 seconds.
After going viral on social media, Jabola-Carolus urged other women to not "suffer silently" and help draw attention to the pandemic's impact on women.[10]