J. Dana Trent, right, speaks with a student after class at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Jan. 30, 2020. RNS photo by Yonat Shimron ...

J. Dana Trent as a toddler with her mother. Courtesy of J. Dana Trent By age four, I’d been expelled from preschool for peeling the paint off the walls after leading nap-time coups.

Photo courtesy J. Dana Trent Her new project is grittier and more raw. On the podcast, she describes how from the time she was a toddler, she separated cannabis plant stems from seeds.

J. Dana Trent, who describes herself as a preschool drug dealer growing up in poverty in Dana, Indiana, became a Duke University Divinity School graduate and an ordained Baptist minister.