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About Carolyn Classen

Carolyn Sugiyama Classen was a 2008 Tucson Citizen My Tucson columnist. She was born and raised in a sugar plantation community on Hawai’i Island, then belonged to a Jesuit “koinonia” at the Paulist Center in Boston. She is a 3rd generation Japanese American and has studied Spanish, Japanese, German, and Hawaiian. She has been a practicing attorney, legislative aide on Capitol Hill (for U.S. Senator Dan Inouye), and is now a Hearing Officer in Small Claims Court. Carolyn has also published two short stories in Rick Carroll's 2006 "The Best of Hawaii's Best Spooky Tales."

Recent Posts

• We Want You! to “enlist” early for Beat Cancer Boot Camp’s 5K Obstacle Course Challenge
• Learn to play Mahjong at Himmel Library’s Senior Games
• “7 Germiest public places”
• “Arizona’s Civil Rights Memories” over past 100 years hosted by ACLU of AZ
• Republican businessman Sean Collins files to run for District 4 Pima County Supervisor
• Trail Dust Town celebrates “50 years of steakhood” & 100 years of statehood
• Four Corners Festival
• Main Library celebrates Arizona’s Centennial on Feb. 11
• 9 downtown museums free on Saturday Feb. 11 for AZ Centennial
• 3 days of celebration for Arizona’s 100th Birthday (Feb. 10, 11, 12)
• “Ingenious” (filmed in Tucson) playing at the Loft for one night only
• Linguistics Professor Noam Chomsky coming to UA on Feb. 8
• 4th Annual Tour de Cookie
• Truly “A New American Family” by former UA President Peter Likins (book review)
• Food Truck Roundup & Monday Movie Nite in Marana – updated

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