Few Facts About Maria

  I was born in the Dominican Republic in 1978 but I was raised in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, from since first grade.  Click here to see where the Caribbean is an a detailed map of St. Croix and the Virgin Islands.
  I attended Ricardo Richards Elementary School. In 1986 I met my first best friends, Nilaja "Gigi" Taylor, in the Police Athletic League Summer program. We have been in the same classes and even lived in the same neighborhood, Strawberry Hill, until high school.

In elementary we both participated in a steelband orchestra, "Rising Stars". After Our Ricardo Richards Graduation in 1990, we both attend John H. Woodson Jr High & St. Croix Central High School.

More details on John H. Woodson Jr. High and our high school, St. Croix Central High are on this page.

A couple of  months after I finished high school, I married Peter Edwards whom I met a year earlier and we started a family. My first and hopefully only child is Karina Edwards. Unfortunately, Peter and I divorced in 2005.

After I gave birth to Karina in St. Croix, we moved to Charlotte, NC, and there I attended Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, NC. A year later Peter was promoted to General Manager and we had to move to High Point, NC. I attended and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro on May 13, 2005. Finally. I graduated with a BS in Biology. Hopefully, I intend to attend medical school but for right now I am giving school a rest and taking some time out for me and my daughter.

I became certified as a Nursing Assistant and as an Emergency Medical Technician, here in the Triad. I' was working  in High Point Regional Hospital since December 1998. Later I went into Customer services and worked for APAC Customer Services and  DELUXE Financial Services, where I am currently working at.  See my current customer service resume here or doc.