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[2] where she was raised by her mother, a Postal Service manager.[3] She attended Syracuse University and earned a graduate degree in health-care management from Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy. She married David Paterson on November 21, 1992; he was her second husband. They have a son together, born February 1994, named Alex. Paige Paterson has a daughter, Ashley, from her first marriage, who was raised by Paterson.[3][4]
Paige Paterson is director of the integrated-wellness program at the Health Insurance Plan of New YorkHMO, a program that assists individuals with chronic health problems to better manage their conditions by helping them to improve their life skills.[3] She previously worked as a lobbyist for North General Hospital in Manhattan.[5][6]
On March 18, 2008, Paige Paterson and her husband both admitted to having had affairs with other people.[7] 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".[3]
Further reading
Paterson, David"Black, Blind, & In Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity." New York, New York, 2020
^Bishop, Eric; Corasaniti, Nick; Mainland, Alexis; Rueb, Emily S.; Vega, Tanzina; Wheaton, Sarah (2008-03-15). "From Harlem to Albany". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-12.