Elsy Mecklemboug was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on November 7, 1953, to Gerard Mecklembourg (deceased) and Anne-Marie Valmé (deceased). She traveled to the United States in 1972 where she attended Queens College and later completed her master’s degree from The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. She married Alfred Guibert (deceased) in 1980 and had three boys, Giscard (deceased), Youri and Mao Guibert. She had three grandsons, Cairo Jean-Giscard, Mateo Jean-Alfred and Tiago Jean-David Guibert. Elsy founded EMG Health Communications in 1997, a non-profit organization providing health awareness, cancer screenings, counseling and education to immigrants and minority groups throughout the boroughs and Nassau County. She would organize and plan events and conferences yearly in March and October honoring women and breast cancer survivors respectively. In 2005, she became the first Haitian woman elected on the Elmont School board of trustees servicing the students and parents in the community where she would serve for three years. Elsy was a pillar of her community participating in health fairs, health programs and seminars to help many throughout Nassau County, Queens and Brooklyn. She hosted and held fundraisers for several local politicians in her home in Elmont and helped them get elected, namely Legislator Carrié Solages, Assemblyman Thomas Alfano and more. In 1996, she took on the American Embassy in Haiti to ensure that a woman living in Haiti would obtain a visa to the United States to see her dying daughter. She was responsible for saving two dozen women in surviving breast cancer with early detection programs through EMG Health. She worked for many years in public health with various organizations and companies. She also worked as a college professor for Adelphi University, Hofstra University, Queens College, York College and recently St. Francis College in Brooklyn. In 2013, Elsy decided to obtain her Doctoral degree, something she had wanted 20 years prior, but obstacles always got in her way. However, she was determined and ready to conquer the program head on and proudly earned her PhD in May 2018 from Teachers College at Columbia University. She participated in the school choir at Columbia where she performed solos in several concerts. She was an avid traveler having visited nearly 25 countries in her life. She was eager to learn and always ready to dabble in new adventures and step out of her comfort zone. Elsy will be remembered for her morals and values, her tenacity but more importantly her vivacious attitude toward life. She passed away peacefully on October 3, 2022, at home in Elmont surrounded by her books, paintings and family. She is survived by her sons, grandsons, brothers, nieces and nephews and her close friends, Ginette Cherubin, Margarette Nelson, Junie Mitton, Chantal Papillon, Marie-Hélène Roy, Marie-Andrée Etienne, Michaele Auguste, Marie Lourdes Elgirus, Jaqueline Craan, Aubrey Philips, Pam Byer, Dr. Edith Wainwright, Dr. Robert Fullilove and many more.