A prominent artist and peace activist, Carolyna was the founder & director of The World Wall for Peace which she established in 1983 and had worked with local communities to build peace walls in Russia, Israel, Japan, South Africa, and six states in the United States. 15 walls still exist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Carolyna’s work was to build a wall to encase and protect the world, the tiles produced by thousands of children who went through weeks of peace empowerment process to produce the tiles and to work through a unique experiential method showing the power of love and non-violence. Carolyna had written that “people should be happy with creating rather than destroying….People associate me with the walls but I want them to understand that the walls are a process and they cement the process on to the wall in their tiles.” She was “ not one to be discouraged: ‘Rise above it’ is my philosophy, yeah, I’m sad about things in the world. But I rise above it!”