Talley is compliance manager at Convera, a global payments company. She received her Master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the American University in Cairo,
where she was a University Fellow, and worked with the Anglican Diocese of Egypt on Muslim/Christian interfaith dialog projects. Talley has a Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies from Sewanee / The University of the South and completed her independent study on women in the Pauline epistles with Rev. Dr. Christopher Bryan.