Council Member, District 41; Council Member Mealy was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Brooklyn's 41st District, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area. She attended P.S. 28, J.H.S 271 and George W. Wingate High School. She later studied at The Borough of Manhattan Community College and Cornell for Labor and Women’s Studies. Prior to her election to the council, Mealy was employed at the New York City Transit Authority for 17 years, in the Department of Buses Technical Services Division; Member of Christ Memorial Church, Pastor Flora L. H. Grant under the Pilgrim Church, Chief Prelate Arch Bishop Roy E. Brown; Founder/President of a multiple block association organization known as the Fulton Street/Atlantic Avenue/Ralph Avenue/Rochester Avenue F.A.R.R. Community Association, Inc.; National Delegate for the Reverend Al Sharpton for President; Board Member Neighborhood Housing Services; 81st Precinct Community Council's Former Secretary; Unity Democratic Club's Former Secretary. Darlene Mealy is truly a face of Brooklyn.