Traci West is Professor of Christian Ethics and African American Studies at Drew University Theological School. She is the author of Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality: Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence (NY University Press, 2019) Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women’s Lives Matter (Westminster John Knox, 2006), Wounds of the Spirit: Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics (NY University Press, 1999), and editor of Our Family Values: Same-sex Marriage and Religion (Greenwood/Praeger, 2006).