Caroline Mayhew
(MA-JD program) Simon’s Rock College – Latin American Studies & Native American Studies
Caroline Mayhew was born and raised on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. She attended Simon's Rock College in western Massachusetts with a concentration in Native American Studies, graduating at the age of 20. Caroline spent a semester at the Lower Brule Reservation in South Dakota working for a boys and girls club as part of a service learning program. Her senior thesis was a comparison of youth in the native communities of Lower Brule and Aquinnah.
After graduation Caroline co-coordinated the Turtle Project, the summer youth program for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, Aquinnah, Mass. She then worked in the Tribe's Education Department. She also interned in the Cultural Arts Department at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in 2007 prior to starting law school at UCLA. Caroline currently is enrolled in the joint degree program with the law school and the interdepartmental program.
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