India Pierce-Jackson (she/her) is an educator, entrepreneur, creative, and PhD Candidate at UCSD in Ethnic Studies & Critical Gender Studies. Her research interests include queer and womanist theology, feminist epistemology and methodologies, gender, freedom movements, Black cultural traditions, and speculative imaginaries. India's dissertation explores the divine embodiment of queer women of color activists. Situating the spiritual as indispensable to the political, the project situates freedom as a critical speculative space, in which QWOC are portal makers, carriers of culture, and divine practitioners. Ultimately revealing through their activism that the divine is anywhere the fight is.

Outside of her research India sits on the board of Lambda Archives, is the owner of Omi Picnics, a luxury picnic events company, and runs a consultancy working with companies and business owners, to create joyful workplaces. Committed to helping others boldly chase joy, India pushes people to understand that joy is not a reward that should only come after long hard work, but that making intentional time for nonproductive joy is its own liberation practice.