Tina was born and raised in Memphis, TN. She graduated from The University of Tennessee at Martin with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She traveled as a nurse and worked locally for many years before returning to Arkansas State University to obtain her Master of Science in Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Tina has worked in retail clinics, urgent care, and as a hospitalist Nurse Practitioner under various internal medicine physicians and specialty doctors managing acute and chronic illnesses. In 2015, Tina graduated from University of South Alabama as a Doctoral prepared Nurse Practitioner completing her capstone project on, "Performing psychosocial screening in patients with diabetes to improve adherence to diabetes regimen".