Sloan Okrey Anderson (they/them/theirs) obtained a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Illinois and spent three years working with queer and trans youth as a social worker in central Illinois. Sloan is a PhD candidate in the department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota. Their research is focused on the experiences of LGBTQIA people who were raised in non-affirming Christian families, and the ways in which those experiences continue to impact LGBTQIA people into adulthood. Sloan currently works collaboratively with two local organizations that focus on serving LGBTQIA people from non-affirming Christian backgrounds, and their dissertation research is among the first to explore the impact of Christian family rejection across the lifespan.