Patience Quayson, a native of Ghana, West Africa, attended Catholic school and sang in her local church choir. She has been a religious sister for more than thirty years, serving as the vocation director of her order for more than twenty years. In 1986, she was sent to Rome to study, graduating with a master's in theology. Later, she earned a Doctor of Ministry and a Ph.D. in pastoral psychology. A licensed psychoanalyst, she is a psychoanalyst/psychotherapist at Blanton Peale, Manhattan, New York.
