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Author Description Dr. Caroline Joan ("Kay") S. Picart (M.Phil, Cambridge University, Sir Run Run Shaw Scholar & Wolfson Prize Winner; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University; Postdoctoral Scholar, Cornell School of Criticism and Theory; joint Juris Doctor/Law (cum laude) and M.A. in Women's Studies, 2013, University of Florida) is a philosopher, scholar, critic, former tenured professor of philosophy, humanities and english, former adjunct and courtesy professor of law, and author/co-author of 21 published and forthcoming scholarly books. She was awarded the prestigious "Best Essay Award" by Dapim, an international scholarly journal on Holocaust studies in Israel, in 2016.<br /><br />She is currently an appeals attorney in criminal defense at the Florida 10th Judicial Circuit's Public Defender Office; before then, she had her own firm, practicing in criminal and family law. She concentrates most of her scholarly writing on philosophy, crime and law, intellectual property, and international law though her work also intersects with criminology, sociology, film, humanities and communications, among others. She also serves as Editor to the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Law, Culture and the Humanities, and as an Advisory Board Member in Criminology and Law to Cambridge Scholars Publishing in the U.K.<br /><br />In 2005, she founded her own fine art and dance company, Kinaesthetics, LLC; she continues to participate in various solo and group art exhibits and has contributed many of her art works for philanthropic purposes with various groups, inclusive of the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). She was the first Filipina to have a solo art exhibit introduced and sponsored by the Philippine Embassy at Seoul, South Korea in 1992. <br /><br />In 2006, she was the U.S. DanceSport Pro-Am Champion in Cabaret (a mix of ballroom, ballet and gymnastics); in 2005, she placed second in the same division. She adores her beloved Puerto Rican husband and their hybrid Asian exotic cats and German Shepherd. <br />

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