Shandon Klein is currently a doctoral student in Religious Ethics at Southern Methodist University through the Graduate Program of Religious Studies. She is currently studying the role of religion and spirituality in the womanist ethic of resistance and the ethic of control. Shandon is a certified candidate for the order of Elder in the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church and a lay delegate to the 2022 General Conference. She was also recently elected as a student representative for the Board of the Society for Christian Ethics.