Anna is a theologian, pastor, and facilitator working at the intersections of Christian theology, gender and cultural theory, and trauma studies. Anna teaches at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University and at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Anna’s work aims to raise awareness of ways in which Christian traditions have shaped many deeply embodied social oppressions and, in contrast, to discuss and facilitate ways in which spirituality can offer sustaining capacity for liberating social change, healing, and communal flourishing. They are a member of the Christ Seminar with Westar Institute and the author of Power For: Feminism and Christ’s Self-Giving and Interrupting a Gendered, Violent Church. Anna studies in politicized somatics and teaches Mind Body Skills developed by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine.