Carolyn has her MBA and is a certified landscaper through the Desert Botanical Garden. She comes to Friendship Village Tempe after spending decades in high-tech marketing. She works in the new community garden Tuesday to Saturday mornings while she pursues her next degree in landscape horticulture and shifts from gardening as a hobby to a second career. She is passionate about urban gardening and garden tourism.

Carolyn moved to Arizona twenty years ago from the San Francisco Bay Area. Now she lives in Chandler after raising her kids in Gilbert, where she was president of her HOA for many years. She has lived in several countries and welcomes any opportunity to speak German and to improve her French and Spanish. Her hobbies include yoga, vegetarian cooking and travel.