Selina Palm is a Senior Researcher based at the Unit for Religion and Development at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She has twenty years of project and empirical research experience working with marginalized groups and faith actors, especially across the African continent. She holds an MA in Human Rights from the University of Essex and a PhD in Theology and Development from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. She has published widely in academic journals on faith and violence against women, children, people with disabilities, and gender and sexual minorities. She is also a lay faith leader in her church.