Patricia Raybon is an award-winning journalist, author, and professor whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. She is the author of My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love, and Forgiveness, a memoir about her experiences growing up in a racially divided America. She is also the co-author of I Told the Mountain to Move, a spiritual memoir, and Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace, a memoir of interfaith understanding.