Sharon Alley lives in Jerusalem with her husband Gary, Pastor of the Narkis Street Congregation, and their boys. She grew up in East Africa, where her parents worked with Wycliffe Bible Translators, her father as a Bible Translation Consultant, and attended boarding school at Rift Valley Academy. She studied her tertiary degrees at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Hebrew Bible.

Sharon is passionate about opening up the richness of the Bible through teaching biblical languages and background, which has been her main pursuit for the past 30 years. She taught courses in Hebrew Bible, Hebrew, and Greek for several years in New York City at Nyack College Manhattan Campus. She has been involved with curriculum development, training teachers, as well as teaching students for the Biblical Language Center for many years, and directed an intensive, spoken biblical Hebrew graduate program for translators and consultants in Jerusalem with Whole Word Institute.