Constance Roslinda Gary was born in Columbia, South Carolina. Between 1951 and 1953 she attended schools in Huntington Shire and Margate Kent, England. She graduated from Classical High School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Constance majored in fine arts at the University of Hartford, in West Hartford, Connecticut. In 2011 she earned an English as Second Language and nonprofit management certificates from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. After completing a twenty-two-week mindful meditation study at Duke Integrated Medicine in 2013, she participated on a panel discussing benefits of mindful meditation at Women's Empowerment at PSC in Durham, North Carolina. Ms. Gary currently lives in Durham, North Carolina.
