BRENDA J. ANDERSON is a graduate of North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University, Greensboro, North Carolina where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.  She is also a graduate of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia where she earned a Masters in Reading.  Brenda has proudly served in the teaching profession for over fifteen years.  She is presently teaching in the Chesapeake Public School System in Chesapeake, Virginia where she resides with her family.

Brenda and her husband, James Sr., have been blessed with four wonderful children: Shastca, James, Jr., Roy and Joshua, and three beautiful grandchildren: Malik, Destini and Marquis.

Brenda served as a caregiver for her mother and with her family witnessed the miraculous death process which inspired her to write Touched by Mama, which served as Brenda’s way of healing from the pain of the death of “Mama.”