Carole .J. Garrison

CAROLE J. GARRISON is a former police officer, professor, activist and passionate humanitarian. After a stint as a suburban housewife and mother in Miami, she joined the Atlanta Bureau of Police Services in the early 1970s as one of a handful of women police officers in the U.S., but shifted to education after receiving her PhD from Ohio State University. During Garrison’s career as an educator, she helped launch the University of Akron’s Women’s Studies program, was inducted into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame, was vice president of Ohio’s first women’s commission, appointed by the U.S. president to the Department of Defense Committee on the Status of Women in the Military, and volunteered with the UN to help supervise Cambodia’s first democratic election. In 1993, she returned to Akron to teach; but thee years later she returned to Cambodia and served as executive director of the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia, a network of humanitarian and developmental non-governmental organizations (NGO). Garrison’s work has appeared in VietNow Nation Magazine, The Sacrifice: What Would You Give? An Anthology of Inspirational Essays (2014), WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? Breaking the White Code of Silence, A Collection of Personal Narratives (2016), and placed in the WOW! Women On Writing, Winter 2016 Flash Fiction contest.