Mitali Perkins is the author of Ambassador Families: Equipping Your Kids to Engage Popular Culture and has also written for Christianity Today, Discipleship Journal, Campus Life, With, Prism, Wary Cry, U.S. Catholic, and other periodicals. She also writes fiction for young adults, including Monsoon Summer and The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen. Mitali is married to the Reverend Rob Perkins, senior pastor of Newton Presbyterian Church in Massachusetts, and they have twin sons.