Brooke Crittendon was raised by her single mother in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from Roland Park Country School in Baltimore in 1999 and from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Science, degree in Television, Film Production/Music Industry Management in 2003..
In June, 2007, Brooke became a series associate producer in MTV's
True Life (1998), then in 2010 she was a global marketing consultant at David Yurman. In 2011 she became a manager in the marketing department at Epic Records in New York.
She appeared on her own reality show
Harlem Heights (2009) on BET.