Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali was born Angela Urquhart in September of 1970. After graduating from high school, she attended the University of Connecticut for two and a half years before marrying and moving to Houston, Texas.
She is the mother of three children, one son and two daughters.
Khaalidah spent many years as a housewife in which she home-schooled her two eldest children. In the midst of this, she successfully wrote and published several articles in both the online and in-print arenas.
At the age of thirty, Khaalidah returned to college to earn a degree in nursing. She currently works as an oncology nurse at M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, a world -renowned cancer hospital.
She remains in Houston, Texas with her husband of eighteen years and three children.