Pamela Brubaker is professor of religion at California Lutheran University. Her area of expertise concentrates on the inter-structuring of gender, race/ethnicity and class in systems of domination and exploitation and ways people of faith can help untangle these webs of oppression. Her books include Globalization at What Price? Economic Change and Daily Life, Welfare Policy: [feminist critiques] and Women Don’t Count: The Challenge of Women’s Poverty to Christian Ethics. She also contributed a chapter to Religion and Economic Justice.

During the first encounters between the World Council of Churches, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in 2003 Brubaker presented papers on Christian faith and economic justice. She co-chairs the Los Angeles based organization Sweatshop Action Committee of Progressive Christians Uniting. Brubaker served as co-chair of the Ethics Section of the American Academy of Religion for a three-year term. She is currently on the board of the Society of Christian Ethics. Her Ph.D. is in Christian social ethics from Union Theological Seminary.