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Carolyn Bolton

I received by B.A. in Music/Communication with a minor in Theology from Western Baptist Bible College (now Corban University) in Salem, Oregon, in 1977.

The first half of my career was spent as a complex litigation paralegal. In 1993 I went on to earn my Professional Mediation Certification from Institute for Conflict Management in Portland, Oregon, and entered the world of nonprofit management, grant writing and community mediation efforts. I focused my work on marginalized populations: low income elderly, adults with disabilities, children/youth of incarcerated parents, small business owners from Oregon's nine Native American tribes, poor rural Oregon communities. For a 4-year window in the late 1990s I was chosen to serve as a public policy mediator in Oregon state government, working for the Oregon Dispute Resolution Commission. That was my favorite career undertaking of all.

I semi-retired in 2012 and moved from Salem to NE Seattle, Washington, to a wonderful studio apartment in the Ravenna Neighborhood just north of University of Washington. After only three years there, I was called to move back to Twin Falls to care for my aging disabled mother in her home until she passed in early 2021. I worked part-time as a bookkeeper during those years returned to TF.

July 2024 saw me moving back to Seattle to live in a sweet studio apartment on Capitol Hill after nine years in Twin Falls. Just before our 50th Class Reunion in August 2023, I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma - cancer of the Plasma B cells in my bone marrow. Southern Idaho was literally a medical desert and no medical treatment was available for me, so I self-referred and after extensive testing was accepted as a patient at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center/University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. We've caught my cancer very early, so with a fantastic medical team at a cutting-edge medical center, I plan to be around a good long time. Multiple myeloma isn't currently curable, but it is treatable. So I will need to live in the back yard of Fred Hutch the remainder of my life.

My son Andrew and his family live just outside Salem, Oregon - where I lived for 40 years and raised my kids. My daughter Kimberly and her family live on Beacon Hill in South Seattle. I have four amazing grandchildren. Ranging from 4 to 17 years old, two boys and two girls. I am blessed indeed.

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