Nichole M. Flores is associate professor of religious studies and director of the health, ethics, and society minor at the University of Virginia. She researches the contributions of Catholic and Latiné theologies to notions of justice and aesthetics in pluralistic and democratic political contexts. Flores is author of The Aesthetics of Solidarity: Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy (Georgetown University Press, 2021). She also is a contributing author on the masthead at America magazine. In 2015, Flores was honored with the Catherine Mowry LaCugna Award for best essay in Catholic theology from the Catholic Theological Society of America. She earned an A.B. in government from Smith College, an M.Div. from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College.