Draft:Wilson Louis-Elias

Wilson Louis-Elias was born in Maissade, Haiti, on September 22, 1967. He was the fifth child of Lucile Jean-Gilles and Germain Jean-Pierre. Germain left Wilson with his mother before the child reached his fifth birthday. Since Lucile was already struggling to raise five other children on her own, she brought Wilson to his father, who was living in Thomassique. Shortly after, the child was back with his mother because his missed his mother too much to stay with the father. As Wilson approached the age of 5, Lucile enrolled Wilson in elementary school. The young man now successfully completed elementary school and his mother sent him to Saint Marc to live with his older brother and to continue attending school. By the end of the first year in Saint Marc, he returned near Maissade, to Hinche, to continue school. The next year, he was back in Maissade for good to spent 3 years there in school. In 1985, Wilson went to Port-au-Prince to finish secondary school in the capital of the country. For another 7 turbulent years in Port-au-Prince, he also obtained an associate degree in accounting. In 1992, Wilson immigrated to the United States, where he lived in Brooklyn New York for 2 years. While living in Brooklyn, Wilson began to attend college at Medgar Evers College. In 1994, he relocated to Elmont on Long Island, where he married Nicole Brimaire. The same year, Wilson opened a bookkeeping services company to serve small businesses. In 1995, his wife and himself had their first child called Nickeisha Louis-Elias. Wilson completed his bachelor's degree in accounting and closed the company to start working as a tax auditor for New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. He worked for the tax department for 7 years. For one more year with the state, he worked for NYS Office of the State Comptroller. While working for the state, he attended University of Phoenix to complete his Master's of Science in Computer Information Systems degree. Then his returned to private practice as he did before working for New York State. In 2003, the family had a second child, a son called Dylan Louis-Elias. Wilson lived in New York for 31 years and moved to Florida in 2022 with his wife and son - 18 years old now. Their daughter stayed in New York to pursue her expertise in orthodontics at Columbia University.