About the Author
 

LUCILE STEPHENS RICHARDSON, ED.D, a licensed and ordained minister and educator, is the provost of the International Leadership Training Institute and acting executive director of the International Third World Leaders Association, under the leadership of Dr. Myles Munroe in Nassau, Bahamas.

Prior to moving to the Bahamas in 1998, Dr. Richardson served as the head of the Education Department at BIOLA University, where she was selected for Who’s Who Among America’s Outstanding Professors. While at BIOLA, Dr. Richardson was selected to teach at RICE University in Hong Kong as an adjunct summer professor. She has also provided educational training and administrative consulting to private Christian schools in Hong Kong, China, Papua New Guinea and Sydney, Australia.

Lucile received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Upon graduation at age 19, she accepted a secondary teaching position with the Prince Georges County Public Schools in Maryland. She later became a recipient of the National Science Foundation Grant to pursue a master’s degree in earth sciences at American University in Washington, D.C. Her move to Los Angeles, California, soon led her to complete a master’s degree in educational administration at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, and later a doctorate degree in education with an emphasis in institutional management and curriculum development from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.

In November, 2006, Dr. Lucile Richardson was the recipient of the International Third World Leaders Association Annual Leadership Award in Church Education. She was also honored as one of the 2006 Most Outstanding Singles In Bahamas Faith Ministries International Fellowship in Nassau, Bahamas.

Born the youngest of six children and raised in the cotton fields of South Carolina, Dr. Richardson brings a hearty laughter, a mothering spirit, and a deep desire to see others rise up and pursue their purpose in life. She is a woman of faith whose life testimony will inspire you to never ever give up on life, for your best is yet to come!