Education: MS, Packaging Design, Pratt Institute, New York, NY BFA, (summa cum laude) Montclair State University Kölcsey Ferenc Gimnázium (High School), Budapest, Hungary

Teréz Balogh Kearney grew up in Budapest, Hungary. On July 4, 1976 she immigrated to the United States and was employed by several large design firms in New York and Philadelphia.

In 1987 she became a US military spouse and part of the US military community. In 1989 and due to her fluency in Russian and knowledge of Eastern European culture, she was asked by the US Coast Guard to serve as a liaison during a high-level Soviet Union delegation’s tour of New York harbor and the Statue of Liberty. Her knowledge of Russian and Hungarian culture became known in U.S. government circles and in the early 1990’s she was asked by the Environmental Protection Agency to participate in the visit of a Hungarian government environmental delegation to Philadelphia and Baltimore. In addition, US officials sought her assistance with several US military functions when Hungarian military delegations were to be present.

Mrs. Kearney has been active in the Hungarian-American community, first being a Hungarian folk dancer, then supporting a Hungarian Museum in Passaic, NJ and volunteering for many years as organist of St. Stephen’s R.C. Hungarian Church. She has supported many Hungarian cultural exchange events. This support led to the presentation of an award by the American-Hungarian World Organization in 1998.

In additional to a successful package design consulting business, Mrs. Kearney serves as a consultant to Defense Solutions on eastern European issues. She, her husband Michael, a retired Coast Guard Commander, and daughter Boglárka live in Haverford, PA. As the Kearney’s visit Hungary frequently, for more than a decade they've maintained a second residence in Budapest. During the Summer of 2004, the Kearney's established the Defense Solutions' office in Budapest, close to the Ministry of Defense. Together they led the Defense Solutions' operation that resulted in a teaming agreement between Defense Solutions and the Currus Combat Vehicle Technique Company of Gödöllö , Hungary -- a joint stock company owned by the Government of Hungary.

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