Jene Ray Barranco

Jene' Ray Barranco is a motivational speaker to Christian and secular groups, churches and women's conferences, and founder of a ministry to single moms. In the wake of her husband's sudden and unexpected death, Jene wrote GOODNIGHT, I LOVE YOU, a memoir that addresses the overwhelming grief of loss while grappling with being a single mother to three grieving teenagers, and how she overcame the deafening silence she felt at the center of her relationship with God. She blogs at www.eyesstr8ahead.blogspot.com and "A Woman's Heart" at www.jenebarrano.blogspot.com. She is the mother of three children and resides in Jackson, Mississippi.