I live in sunny Southern California where I’m an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My research interests center on cultural and feminist rhetorics with specific attention to gender, sexuality, reproductive justice, and religious trauma. I earned my PhD in the Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) program at Clemson University in 2021. My dissertation, Altared Bodies: Evangelical Purity Rhetorics in the Age of Sexual Politics, won the Victor J. Vitanza Outstanding RCID Dissertation award in April 2022 and was one of three finalists for the Religious Communication Association’s Top Dissertation award in 2022. I am currently working on a book project focusing on the rhetorics of Purity Culture. In addition to my monograph, I recently received a grant to conduct archival research that will support my on-going work on reproductive justice. My research and teaching continue to evolve from my investments in building just, equitable, and communal frameworks for embodied life.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Colorado, Texas, and North Carolina, dedicated to helping individuals embrace the sacred journey of becoming their best selves through education and psychotherapy. As the founder of Pearl in Process Counseling, I specialize in supporting the perinatal population through mood disorders, relational challenges, and the profound life transitions that come with this season of life.

With a deep understanding of faith and sexuality, I frequently work with individuals from diverse Christian backgrounds, providing a compassionate space to navigate the intersections of spirituality, mental health, and intimacy. Currently, I am pursuing a PhD in Clinical Sexology, with my research focusing on the impact of Purity Culture on the sexual satisfaction of postpartum women.

Through my work, I aim to empower individuals with the knowledge and tools to cultivate healthier relationships, deeper self-awareness, and a fulfilling sense of intimacy. Whether through therapy, education, or research, my mission is to help others reclaim their narratives and thrive in both their personal and relational lives.

I am affiliate faculty at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology where I teach graduate courses in theology and develop trauma-sensitive curricula for one of its non-degree programs. I earned my Ph.D. in Christian Social Ethics from Drew University, and as a doctoral student, I served as submissions editor for the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. My debut book, Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture, will be published with New York University Press in fall 2025. Living in the North Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, I enjoy a well-brewed cup of coffee and chilly swims in Puget Sound.

I am passionate about supporting healing for people who have had harmful experiences with purity culture. A trained spiritual director and post-traumatic growth coach, I see clients locally as well as via telehealth. I have a MA in counseling psychology and am a doctoral student at the University of Missouri, where I study the various manifestations of adverse religious experiences and their healing. Co-founder of PCRC, my research centers the voices of those who have experienced sexual and gender-based trauma in religious contexts. Upcoming projects examine the impact of purity culture's gender binary on persons assigned male at birth, as well as on trans and nonbinary folks. I am especially interested in the ways that post-purity culture adults achieve empowerment through healing from oppressive systems in religious spaces. When I'm not working or researching, I enjoy snuggling my cats, watching trees dance in the wind, and playing complex tabletop board games with friends.

I am passionate about helping individuals find their way back to their bodies. I have been working with primariiy cis white women who grew up in purity culture for over a decade in my private practice. I believe that movement is the most innate thing about being alive, and I work to help individual and collective bodies find freer movements. I currently live in a van and am traveling around North America with my husband and Boxer dog. Some of my favorite things include rolling around on the ground, laughing with friends, and experiencing new places with my family. My research into purity culture focuses on its psycho-somatic impacts on young, white women and how those impacts convinced many of us becoming missionaries.

I am an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Columbia College of Missouri. I teach courses relating to culture, identity, and politics within the Communication and Women's Studies disciplines such as Argumentation, Political Communication, Gender Communication, Health Communication, and Interpersonal Communication. I earned my Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Memphis and my M.A. in Communication Studies from Ball State University with an emphasis in Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholarship. My research focuses on using critical mixed methods to explore political, religious/spiritual, and health communication. Topics of interest include American evangelical politicism, purity discourse, and media and religion. Outside of my research and teaching, I am a fan of triathlons, trail running, and reality T.V.

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an AASECT certified sex therapist based in New York City. Currently, I am in the dissertation phase of my PhD in Clinical Sexology, where my research focuses on the impacts of Purity Culture on male sexuality. Additionally, I serve as an ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ at a church in Brooklyn, NY, alongside my wife.

I am Associate Professor of Feminist Theology and Gender Studies at the University of Oslo. Originally from Canada, I earned a PhD in Theological Studies from the University of Toronto in 2021. My research focuses on the history of gender in the Christian tradition, with specific expertise in anti-feminist theologies amongst American evangelicals in the 20th century.

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and AAMFT Approved Clinical Supervisor in Tennessee, practicing in Knoxville, Chattanooga, and virtually. I am also Assistant Professor in the School of Counseling at Richmont Graduate University in Chattanooga, Tennessee. My Masters degree and PhD are both in Marriage and Family Therapy. Clinically, my focus is in sex therapy, purity culture, and religious deconstruction with both individuals and couples. My doctoral research examined the relationship between purity culture and sexual functioning/satisfaction for women.

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of Tennessee, an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, the co-founder for the Religious Trauma Institute and founder of the Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery. I work with clients who have complex trauma with specialties in domestic violence, sexualized violence and religious trauma, including individuals coming out of cults, fundamentalism, and purity culture. My education, clinical experience, research, and personal experiences inspire my work with clients, training professionals, and creating resources

We are a group of trauma informed and trained coaches from North America who specialize in working with individuals who are coming out of high control religions, cults, fundamentalism, navigating adverse religious experiences, and religious trauma--including purity culture. Each of our practitioners draws from their personal experience and professional training to create work with clients in an individualized and holistic way. We believe that everyone deserves to heal, regardless of where you live. The medium of coaching allows us to work with individuals all over the world!

I am an associate professor of psychology at Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minnesota, and the co-founder/co-director of the Northwoods Queer Outreach. As a sex educator and sex researcher, I focus on the ways that attitudes and perceptions of gender and sexuality influence behavior. I'm particularly interested in the ways that purity culture and rape culture feed each other reciprocally and how the messages we receive through religious and popular culture media reinforce harmful ideas about gender and sexuality.