Ashley Diaz Mejias earned her MA in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and her MDiv at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond. Originally from Memphis, TN, Ashley began regularly engaging systemic bias while working as the educational director for a small non-profit after graduating from college. Since then, she has devoted her academic work to researching and writing on racial bias and has written for blogs and led curricula for institutional conversations on race, systemic bias, and mass incarceration. Ashley is currently a candidate for ordination in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. She now lives with her husband and three young daughters as part of an intentionally diverse community in the East End of Richmond, VA. This is her first book.