Therese Taylor-Stinson is a writer, spiritual director, and an ordained deacon and ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA).  A retired Fed, Therese is the founding managing member of the Spiritual Directors of Color Network, Ltd., a 501(c)(3) organization. A graduate of the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, she has been in the practice of spiritual direction and contemplative leadership for now over 17 years.  Among others, Taylor-Stinson was the solo editor for her Network’s second award-winning publication Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around:  Stories of Contemplation and Justice, and her first solo debut was with Broadleaf Books in the publishing of Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman:  Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter.  She lives her life as a contemplative and enjoys the natural world and the people and projects that are drawn to her gifts.  She and her husband, Bernard, live in Maryland.