Volunteer of the Month: Carolyn Soley

Carolyn Soley is a vegan high school senior from West St. Paul who is taking classes at the University of Minnesota. She works as a mosaic artist during the summer, and volunteers throughout the school year. In addition to volunteering with CAA, she also works with Big Brothers Big Sisters, the National Honor Society, and the ALS Association.

Carolyn has only been volunteering for CAA since September, but she has already accomplished a lot. Her main involvement is working as the group's leafleting coordinator-finding good leafleting opportunities, organizing leafleting volunteers, and much more. In addition to her work as leafleting coordinator, Carolyn also successfully secured funding for CAA from the University of Minnesota's Student Services Fees and also helps out with other small--but no less important--tasks such as staffing different CAA events.

As for her views on the animal advocacy movement, Carolyn hopes that "over the next hundred years things get better and better, and change completely." She says "having an outlet" to work toward this change keeps her from getting too angry about the way animals are currently treated and viewed.

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