Leslie Garrote received her B.A. in History from Tulane University in 2003, M.A. in Secondary Social Studies Education from City College in 2009, M.Ed. in Educational Leadership from Covenant College in 2015, and M.A.T.S. from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in 2022. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Religion at Baylor University. Her research topics mainly include 21st-century American religion, evangelicalism, gender, and race.