Hi,

My name is Malika Risley, I’m a 31 year-old married mother of one. I live in Tampa Bay Area with my husband David Risley, a successful internet blogger and my baby-girl Elyana.

In 1992 I moved to Sarasota, Florida from Saint Petersburg, Russia.  I lived in Sarasota with my father, a Russian ballet dancer who was working at a local ballet company.  In Sarasota I attended Booker High School and then Manatee Community College.  In 1999 I moved to Tampa to start University of South Florida. I graduated in 2002 with a chemical engineering degree. Up until about a year ago I was working at a local manufacturing plant as a process engineer.  After than I decided to leave and pursue my masters in Civil Engineering. Just recently my studies have been put on hold as I just had a baby girl in December of 2007. So currently I am a stay-at-home mommy.