Cornel West says “We don’t give birth to ourselves.”

I am grateful to generations of teachers and collaborators: Abraham Joshua Heschel, Gustavo Guttiérrez, and Katie Geneva Cannon. Thank you Moises Loza, Mary Hunt, Sr. Marilyn Thie, Sr. Carol Coston, Sr. Carol Zinn, and Sr. Sue Mosteller. And thank you Angie Thurston, Casper ter Kuile, Hilary Allen, and Tiffani Jones Brown. And if Michael Podolsky, Lance Riedel, and Ryan Yeske hadn't been such generous teachers I never would have built a thing. Thanks guys!

I am especially grateful to Sally Gambrell Bridgford for her generous financial support.

I live and work on the unceded land of the Ramaytush Ohlone people, who are traditional custodians of this land. I also acknowledge the legacy of slavery and systemic economic disenfranchisement in the United States and Caribbean by offering reparational payment of 22.5% to all contractors who are descended from African people who were enslaved in the United States or Caribbean.