Orig­i­nal­ly from sub­ur­ban Bal­ti­more Pamela attend­ed the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia and served in Ameri­Corps in Appalachi­an west­ern Mary­land. Now Pamela works at the Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion for the Edu­ca­tion of Young Chil­dren and lives with her chil­dren near the zoo in Wash­ing­ton DC. As a tod­dler Pamela acci­den­tal­ly locked her fam­i­ly out of their house; a climb­ing neigh­bor saved the day.