Brandy Daniels is an Associate Professor of Theology and Co-Director of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Portland. Standing at the intersections of constructive and political theologies, social ethics, and feminist and queer theories, her scholarship explores the place of difference within communal identity and belonging, focusing particularly on gender and sexual difference in Christian thought and practice. She is the author of How (Not) to Be Christian? Identity, Formation, and the Future in Feminist Theologies, forthcoming from Fordham University Press. Brandy co-chairs the Queer Studies in Religion unit of the AAR, the LGBTQIA+ Working Group of the SCE, and is on the executive committee for the Political Theology Network. She is an ordained Disciples of Christ minister.