Belinda is a 2004 graduate of Florida Metropolitan University in Orlando, Florida where she received her A.S. degree in paralegal studies.  Residing in Orlando since the summer of 2001, this Pensacola native also received her B.A. in Communications from the University of West Florida in 2000 where she was a student member of the National Association of Black Journalists and an intern at a major television news station in Mobile, Alabama.  Belinda contributed articles to the campus publication while a student at Pensacola Junior College where she received her A.A. in mass communications in 1998.