Tell us about yourself and the journey that led you to become a leader and mentor of the Catholic faith and education.
Tyrone: I have been working in Catholic education for thirty years now. My career began in 1993 with the Lincoln Separate School Board, which is now a part of the Niagara Catholic District School Board. I worked there for about two and a half years before moving to Waterloo Catholic. In 1995, I returned as a teacher and continued in that role for three more years before becoming an administrator. For 21 years, I was an elementary principal at five sites within Waterloo Catholic, including Kitchener and Cambridge. Later, I served as a superintendent for two years with Wellington Catholic before returning to Waterloo Catholic in September of 2022 as the Director of Waterloo Catholic. Both of my parents were educators, but I had always wanted to become a lawyer. However, my perspective changed when I worked as an unqualified substitute teacher for grade 10 at Resurrection Catholic Secondary School. One day, a student asked me a question that I didn't know the answer to. We worked on it together, and at that moment a light bulb went off. From there I began to pursue a career in education and applied to teachers' college.