Rebecca Oluwatoyin Thompson is a writer and educator studying the nexus between spirituality and art at Harvard Divinity School. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and African & African American Studies from Harvard College, where she conducted research on transformative justice praxis as a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. In partnership with Harvard Radcliffe Institute, she has taught and facilitated a variety of courses in carceral spaces across the United States that interrogate matters of race and gender through critical explorations of literature, art and pop culture. In 2022, she received an Applied Cartooning Fellowship from the Center for Cartoon Studies to co-create a graphic guide on mass incarceration, an art initiative meant to spur informed conversations on the dimensions of punishment in the United States. Her work gives attention to how people and communities heal, repair, and care for one another in the wake of racial, colonial and gender violence.