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However, let me just say, I need to back up a little bit for you

and start from the beginning: “West Philadelphia, born and

raised.” I’m not going to ask you to sing the song, but I know

you know the song. I’m a product of public schools. I

graduated from a public high school, spent one year at

Lincoln University – give it up for Lincoln! – I then did transfer

to Temple University to dual major in what else, but dance

and psychology? That’s a story for another time. We’ll talk

about that. I went on to get my master’s degree in

psychological services in education from the University of

Pennsylvania, and then I went back to Temple for my doctoral

degree in counseling psychology.

I began my career at the University of Pennsylvania. I was

there for 10 years before going all the way across the street to

Drexel University. I was there for another 10 years before

going on the other side of Penn to the University of the

Sciences in Philadelphia, known as the Philadelphia College

of Pharmacy and Science, the first college of pharmacy and

science in the country. And then I went on to Millersville

University because I ran out of all the west Philadelphia

schools, so I had to keep going further west to Lancaster

County out in Pennsylvania.

I am the proud mother of three and a proud grandmother of

three.

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