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Biography

Denise was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1960. She received her GED from Olive-Harvey College in 1993. She graduated from National Louis University in 2007 with a Bachelor Degree. In 2009 she graduated from Spertus College earning her Master Degree in Human Service Administration. She is a certified Addiction and HIV/AIDS Counselor. Denise came up on the rough side of the mountain. Her mother was never around and left her to care for her brothers and sisters. The oldest of seven siblings, Denise was raised by her grandmother in a sweet but bitter home. By the age six, her grandfather, uncle, cousin, the man from the dry cleaners and her sister’s father had molested her. She attended Ulysses L. Grant Elementary School, but dropped out of school at an early age. At age ten, she moved home with her mother and siblings to the Rockwell Gardens housing project on the west side of Chicago. At the age of eleven, her mother introduced her to an environment overridden with drugs, sex and crime. By age twelve, Denise was shooting heroin and committing burglary and auto theft in order to support her drug habit. This lifestyle went on for approximately fourteen years. In 1986 at age 26, Denise met the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave her a second chance in life and he rewrote her destiny. Upon changing her lifestyle and connecting with positive people, Denise overcame the adversities that were controlling her life. Denise is a deliverance minister, author, and motivational speaker in the Chicago-land area. Today, Denise has a great compassion and love for helping others on a daily basis. This love and compassion has inspired her to tell her story in her first book, “Who Said It Couldn’t Be Done?” This candid, true-life account is a heartwarming and inspirational story about a little girl whose mother failed her. Her book is also about choices – good ones as well as bad ones.

Inspiration

The thing that inspired me the most to write this great and aweson book was I, saw and heard many men and women saying what do I have to live for, there anit no hope. I will just use drugs until I die. I remember having those same feelings and thoughts, so I decided to put it on paper. If some can see and read about all the thing I went thought in my live and God has bless me to live and tell the story, this will give the the same hope that I received. The book Who Said It Couldn't Be Done? is a book of True Deliverance and Freedom.