I grew up in Greenwich Village, was in the last graduating class of Music & Art HS before it disbanded. Attended Brooklyn College my Majors - Music, Science, Art, Teaching. Then I moved over to a 90% Black college where I graduated Cum Laude from Brooklyn's Medgar Evers College with a degree in Elementary Education. I worked for the corrupt Bd of Ed of New York City for 10 years. I mostly taught Math in Project Basements to students on long term suspension. Then I moved up to Massachusettes.