Rebecca A. Wilcox (RAW) is a scholar of religion, critical theory, and AI alignment, and the founder of the media platform Pitch Black. Her work analyzes how social and symbolic structures use meaning-making and alignment to determine what is not compatible with life.

She holds a PhD in Religion and Society from Princeton Theological Seminary, where her dissertation, Shadows of Death: Black Religion and Flights Toward Life, explores the antagonistic structure of meaning-making through the Black religious tradition. She holds a Master of Theological Studies with a focus in Ethics from Vanderbilt University and a BA in Religion with a minor in Philosophy from Clark Atlanta University.

Wilcox has presented lectures, papers, and keynotes at institutions including Stanford University, Bucknell University, the University of Cape Town, the University of Virginia, and the Political Theology Network. She has taught courses on social death and Black religion at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Her writing has appeared in The Immanent Frame (Social Science Research Council) and Scalawag, where she served as series editor for the Captive Maternal series, editing the collection alongside Lambda Literary Award winner Da'Shaun Harrison.

Before her doctoral work she served as an intern and policy analyst for the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus, as a Research Advisor building medical methodologies for religious trauma and LGBTQ health at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and as an Intervention Specialist at End Slavery Tennessee, where she trained first responders and crisis teams to distinguish trafficking victims from criminal suspects.

She was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, by her mother and siblings, who inspire the urgency and stakes she brings to her work.