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Carolyn Sugiyama Classen was born & raised on a sugar plantation on the Big Island of Hawaii, now lives with her professor husband in Tucson, Arizona. She got a law degree and worked as a Legislative Aide for U.S. Senator Dan Inouye in Washington, D.C. She was instrumental in the creation of the National Commission on Wartime Relocation & Internment of Civilians, which investigated the wrong done to Japanese Americans during WWII. She is now a blogger/writer at the online Tucsoncitizen.com, as “Carolyn’s Community” and also serves as a Hearing Officer at the Pima County Consolidated Justice Courts Small Claims Division. She occasionally freelances articles for books and journals, such as Oasis and Tucson Woman.
Updated August 2012