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Caroline Mays

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Caroline Mays

Caroline Mays is an English professor, freelancer, and sometime self-defense instructor bringing California sunshine, bright colors, and a passion for fact-checking to community college students in New York. Caroline enjoys sustainable style and wrote a fashion column for two years. She has trained in martial arts for 20 years and is currently writing a humorous book about disaster survival, called Urban Survival for Unarmed Hipsters.