Arriving on Thursday, March 15, 1951, she became the youngest of four siblings and is the mother of seven (including two sets of twins). On Wednesday, April 18, 1973, she was wed to Whitbourne E. Hutchinson of Jamaica, West Indies. From her earliest recollection, she desired to teach and formally began her career in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY (PS 256 on Kosciusko Street). Ingrid earned her A.S. from Tomlinson College in Cleveland, Tennessee, and her B.S. from Michigan State University (MSU) {East Lansing, Michigan}. She went on to earn two Masters’ Degrees from the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) and Pensacola Christian College (PCC), respectively.