Elaine Roulet

For the first two decades of her religious life, she worked at parochial schools in Brooklyn and Queens as a teacher and later principal.

[1] Roulet earned a master's degree in counseling from Bank Street College of Education in Manhattan.

[1] Roulet started her work initially wanting to teach the women inmates of a maximum-security prison in New York how to read.

[1] She later became director of the Children's Center at Bedford Hills, a unique program that permitted mothers whose babies were born in prison to keep them for up to one year.

[1] Later in life, Roulet developed dementia and moved to Stella Maris Convent in Rockaway Park, Queens.