Carolyn Jones

Carolyn Jones
Rotary Action Group for Peace
 
Carolyn Jones is recognized for her distinguished 25-year leadership role in Rotary International, from the president of her Anchorage club to the first woman to be appointed as a trustee to the “The Rotary Foundation.” She has been recognized for her lasting humanitarian contribution as a Rotary volunteer with children in eastern Russian orphanages by both the Alaska State Legislature and the Tomsk Russian Duma. Jones’ career as an attorney in Alaska, litigating laws to make more opportunities for all Americans, has been recognized by the State of Alaska Commission for Human Rights. Carolyn has traveled to Russia 35 times in her service to Rotary – five of those trips as a Rotary Volunteer.  Her story “The Children of Russia” was published in the July 2002 issue of the Rotarian and in“Chicken Soup For The Volunteers’ Soul.”
 

Carolyn grew up in Tarrytown, New York and graduated from Stanford University, and received her law degree from Yale Law school. Quoting Carolyn: her activities, she says are “too numerous to mention and so she won’t. All in all, she has received a lot of awards and recognitions in her lifetime for which she is honored and too embarrassed to enumerate.”

Jones continues to serve humanitarian needs in several capacities through Rotary International and the Rotary Foundation and is sought after as a speaker in many areas, including Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.