Dr. Karlene (Robinson) Richardson attended Nassau Community College where she obtained an associate's degree in Liberal Arts and Science, a bachelor's and master's degree from St. Joseph's College of Maine, and a doctorate in health administration from University of Phoenix. Today the author, a Pentecostal, doctor in health administration and professor, lives with her husband, Gary, and two of her three children, Jevon and Jordan in Queens, New York. The author's first born child, Taisha, lives with her husband Delano, and their daughter Sanaa.