Armagh-born Geraldine Lavery is the dean of students at St. Jean Baptiste High School in New York City. She received bachelor's and master's degrees from St. Mary’s College of Education in Belfast, and St. Joseph’s Seminary’s Institute of Religious Studies in Yonkers, New York.

Married to Paul Lavery, also from Northern Ireland, Lavery has two daughters, Maeve and Grainne.

“I am privileged to have received an Irish Catholic upbringing in a country so rich in sporting culture and tradition. That privilege has served me well in New York,” she says.

 

 

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