Patrick B. Reyes is the author of The Purpose Gap: Empowering Communities of Color to Find Meaning and Thrive (Westminster John Knox Press, 2021) and Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood (Chalice Press, 2017). The senior director of learning design at the Forum for Theological Exploration, he currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his family and ancestors.