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Kate Ayers is a professor of applied sociology specializing in social justice, with a focus on deviance and group dynamics; lending her expertise to various organizations including women\u2019s prisons, juvenile detentions and restitution services. She has worked in the theater industry as an actor, writer, director, and sound designer for over three decades and is also the director of music at the First Christian Church in Olympia, WA.\xa0\xa0\nKate grew up in a conservative home in Indiana where as a young gay woman she came of age during the AIDS epidemic and the fight for equality.