Education
Syracuse University; The New School.
Syracuse University; The New School.
Paige Paterson is the first African American First Lady in New York"s history. Michelle Paige Paterson spent her early years in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City before moving to Staten Island, another New York City borough where she was raised by her mother, a Postal Service manager. She attended Syracuse University and earned a graduate degree in health-care management from Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy.
Paige Paterson is director of the integrated-wellness program at the Health Insurance Plan of New York health maintenance organization , a program that assists individuals with chronic health problems to better manage their conditions by helping them to improve their life skills.
She previously worked as a lobbyist for North General Hospital in Manhattan. Making these admissions was a strategy she supported in order to start David Paterson"s governorship with full disclosure and to avoid "stoking the rumor mill".