Carolyn Parks Mintz is an author, freelance journalist and public speaker and was twice nominated as a Woman of Distinction. She was the content specialist of the 1997 video I Will Walk This Road With You, the producer, writer and host of the radio talk show Ontario's West Coast Today in 2008 and authored The Eye of the Dragon: Women, Cancer and Courage (EbbTide Publishing, 2004), for which she received the Global Calgary Woman of Vision award.
