I grew up in Bayonne, NJ. I was an honour student at Bayonne High School winning the Science Award. I majored in Bio and minored in Education at Rutgers. Later in my career, I earned an MS in Publi...view moreI grew up in Bayonne, NJ. I was an honour student at Bayonne High School winning the Science Award. I majored in Bio and minored in Education at Rutgers. Later in my career, I earned an MS in Public Health at Hunter College.I spent most of my career in the Imports division of the NY FDA. I was a field investigator during the first ten years of my career working as a sample collector and fact-finder in Elizabeth, NJ. The remainder of my career I worked in the office at Headquarters in Jamaica, New York answering phone inquiries from the regulated industry and provided clerical support to management and compliance.view less