Dr. Cheryl A. Giles is Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling at Harvard Divinity School. She teaches courses on spiritual care, trauma, and contemplative care of the dying. Since 2020, she has also been a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University focused on chaplaincy innovation and training. In 2012, Dr. Giles was co-editor of The Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work with Willa Miller. Her most recent book is Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom, co-edited with Pamela Ayo Yetunde. She received her PsyD from Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.