Chandra Plowden’s (she/her/hers) research interests focus on Black Southern women’s everyday lives, storytelling, Black Atlantic religions and ethics, and Afro-Protestant religious histories. Additionally, her research and writing are rooted within the African Diaspora—particularly the United States—and intersect the fields of religion, ethics, labor, gender, and sexuality studies. Chandra’s dissertation, “From Cheap Labor to Good Work: Black Laboring Religious Women’s Organizing and Ethico-Religious Visions in Charleston, SC from 1930 – present,” explores the ethical and religious practices Charleston’s Black women use to see themselves as worthy of labor rights and advocating for improved material conditions. She has previously earned a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, a Master of Public Policy from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science from Columbia College in Columbia, SC. Her latest project—“Standing Up for “Good-Work’”—is a virtual exhibit documenting a 30-year history of working-class black women’s labor ethics in Charleston, SC, from the 1930s to the 1960s.