Beverly Gardner-Samuel was born in Maraval, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
Although she is a Trinidadian by birth, Beverly spent most of her formative years on the beautiful twin island of Tobago. She attended Bon Accord Government School, and continued on to St. Joseph’s Convent for one year of High School before migrating to the United States at the tender age of fourteen.
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Upon her arrival to the United States, Beverly attended George W. Wingate High School and continued her education at City College of New York where she majored in Sociology. During her years at college, she spent many hours volunteering her services helping others by providing counseling and other assistance as needed. She has volunteered in areas such as Rikers Island, Manhattan Family Court, Criminal Court, Supreme Court, Kings County Hospital Center’s Abortion Clinic and Kings County Hospital Center Pediatric Cancer Care Unit.
Beverly worked in the Banking Industry as a Relationship Manager for twenty-two years before joining the New York City Health + Hospitals in 2005. During this time, she has also coordinated several successful Blood Drives and has done numerous motivational speeches on behalf of the New York Blood Services and the Brooklyn/Staten Island Blood Services for companies such as JP Morgan Chase, McGraw Hill and Keyspan, now known as National Grid just to name a few, encouraging their employees about the urgent need for blood donations and how to turn a “No” into a “Yes” when recruiting.
While at NYC Health + Hospitals/McKinney, Beverly functioned in the capacity of Assistant Coordinating Manager in the Volunteer/Marketing Department for seven years before being promoted to the position of Personnel Program Development Specialist. Through her commitment and dedication to her profession, she was again promoted to the position of Assistant Personnel Director, Level I – Human Resources. Her responsibilities were vast and included ensuring the staff of approximately four hundred and eighteen employees remained compliant to the facility’s policies and procedures as well as all New York State Department of Health, Joint Commission and other Regulatory Agency requirements.
In 2020, Beverly transferred to New York City Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health (formerly known as Coney Island Hospital) and was immediately promoted to the title of Assistant Personnel Director – Lv. G with increased responsibilities including the role of the Retirement Administrator, Co-Chair of the Training and Orientation Team for the newly erected Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital, ensuring that the staff of more than three thousand employees are fully oriented, supervising a staff of ten individuals within the Human Resources Department and ensuring compliance of all departmental and facility-wide policies and procedures and all other regulatory requirements.
Beverly is an independent, intellectual and dedicated woman who continues to give of herself freely and is always available when needed. Beverly is also an events planner, public speaker and moderator. She also gave and continues to give charitably of her time to many organizations in the community and abroad that needs her help such as: NYC Health + Hospitals/McKinney (b) Rhema Worship Center (c) 67th Precinct Community Council (d) Events hosted by NYS Assemblywoman Monique Chandler-Waterman as well as weddings, funerals etc.
Beverly has been the recipient of numerous Citations and Congressional Recognitions from the various elected officials including Congresswoman Yvette Clarke.
Beverly’s love of service is attributed to the examples set forth by her mother Jean Gardner, who has devoted a great deal of her life helping and has always led by example in the way she raised Beverly and her two younger sisters Marva and Sharon. Beverly resides in Brooklyn, New York with her husband of thirty-nine years Hilton and their two beautiful children Mark and Karyn. She is a proud mother, mother-in-law and grandmother who devotes a great deal of her time to her family.
Beverly continues to volunteer her time as often as she can and firmly believes that part of serving the Lord is to use the gifts that he has given her to help others.
