Danine Manette has worked as a milieu therapist, a juvenile probation officer and currently works in the field of criminal investigations. She received her Bachelors Degree in Social Welfare from the University of California at Berkeley, and went on to earn her Juris Doctorate from Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

She was a commentator on HLN's Dr Drew On-Call Show, as well as BET's Murder in the Thirst. She has been a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC's Today Show, and has been interviewed as an expert on the topic of infidelity and common-sense approaches to parenting, life and relationships for numerous other local, national and international media outlets.