Carolyn's Community

Carolyn Sugiyama Classen grew up  in a small, rural sugar plantation community on the Big Island of Hawaii. She also gets her love of community from years as a member of a Jesuit Catholic “koinonia”, a group of young people at the Paulist Center in Boston.

Otherwise, she’s been a practicing attorney (a has been, not a never been), a legislative aide on Capitol Hill, and now a part time Hearing Officer in Small Claims Court.  She was  also a 2008 My Tucson columnist for the print edition of the Tucson Citizen, and has published two fascinating short stories in Rick Carroll’s 2006 “The Best of Hawaii’s Best Spooky Tales.”