Sophia Pappas:  

After high school, I went to Wayne State, got a bachelor's in French and English and teaching certification. Before a short stint at middle school teaching at Greusel Middle School (Mt. Elliot Ave.), as a permanent sub, I worked with a team of medical researchers in experimental hypertension (high blood pressure) and edited their manuscripts and grant applications. After the short stint, I worked at Michigan Artrain as an administrative assistant, then married my husband of 27 years, who has been in academic medicine at Cornell in NYC (we lived across the street from the hospital for a year before moving to Long Island where we've owned two homes in the last 26 years) and at State University of New York/Downstate. We raised 2 sons who are studying political science and history at Drexel U in Philadelphia. My move to New York introduced me to the non-profit health association sector (skin cancer fo...Expand for more