Shivpriya Sridhar earned her B.A. in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, along with a minor in Global Health from Duke University and a Certificate in Prison Studies from Duke Divinity School. She later received her M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. As an undergraduate, Priya volunteered with the Orleans Public Defenders and the Innocence Project in London and conducted public health research on carceral systems at UNC School of Medicine and Oxford University, contributing to multiple publications. After graduating, she taught 7th grade English/Language Arts in Nashville, TN, and later taught at the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Princeton Writing Academy. At Princeton, she was deeply involved in the Prison Teaching Initiative and served as a chaplain intern in correctional and hospital settings. She is now a law student at Rutgers Law School, an adjunct professor in New Jersey prisons, and a certified yoga teacher through the Prison Yoga Project.