Sarah Sentilles

Sarah Sentilles was almost a priest. She grew up in Texas and received her BA in Literature from Yale. She taught elementary school in Compton, CA, an experience that is the subject of her first book Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton. She then earned her MDiv from Harvard Divinity School. She was awarded the Billings Preaching Prize, was the managing editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and founded a WomenChurch community. She is currently a doctoral candidate in theology at Harvard. She teaches critical thinking at California State University, Channel Islands, and lives in Camarillo, California.