Marlene Peterson

For the Education category of the S.M.I.L.E. awards (2022), Momivate recognized Marlene Peterson of "The Well-Educated Heart."  

Marlene and her family live in Virginia. She is wife to Brent and the mother of 8 daughters and one son. She has a degree in Child Development and Family Relations but says her real education came through the laboratory of motherhood! She firmly believes "that it will be out of the abundance of mothers' hearts that our world will be blessed and lifted." She has created a Mothers University and an organization called Mothers of Influence.