North Distrct School Board Candidate, Dr. Patricia Devis
Dr. Patricia E. Devis is the only woman candidate in the North District on the ballot for the Buffalo Board of Education. Her name is on the ballot under Level A, the School Board Election is May 4, polls open at 6 AM and close at 9 PM.
Dr. Devis is a woman, a scientist who wrote a doctoral dissertation in Bio-Chemistry at SUNYAB, a tenured Professor at ECC North Campus in Amherst, resident of North Buffalo for over twenty years. She is from Columbia, South America, raised in Puerto Rico, graduated from high school in California and gave up a prestigious fellowship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for SUNY at Buffalo.
After obtaining her Ph.D. in Bio-Chemistry, she taught at SUNY College at Buffalo later, moving on to Erie Community College where she guided, trained and prepared the future scientist of Buffalo and the Western New York Region.
Dr. Devis wants to do the same leadership training for the urban youth in the Buffalo Public Schools and for that we are grateful because there has been a tremendous “brain drain” from this region of some of our most talented people but she stayed and she is still here dedicating herself to preparing the future scientist especially women in an area like Bio-Chemistry where few opportunities exist for them to study or pursue as a career.
Dr. Devis said, ” I am a Ph.D. scientist (UB Biochemistry, 1986) and I have been a Professor for the last 24 years at Erie Community and Buffalo State College. At this stage of my career, I know that as an educator, I can significantly contribute to the Buffalo School District. I will work to improve the methods and programs that are effective and eradicate wasteful inefficiencies. “
Especially for Women in Buffalo, New York 