• DTL, Bakke Graduate University

• Med, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

• BA in Library and Information Studies, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

Retired Civil Servant of the Government of Jamaica with 19 years of service at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information.

Presently employed as Graduate Research Supervisor at the UWI Open Campus, Jamaica, and Adjunct Faculty, BGU.

Marlene was recently appointed as a member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Christian Scholars.

Christian for over 30 years and member of 23 years of the Open Bible Standard Churches of Jamaica (OBSCJ).