Taunalyn Ford Rutherford is a PhD student at Claremont Graduate University in the history of Christianity and religions of North America. She received her BA in history and MA in humanities with a minor in Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. Her research interests center on Mormon studies particularly in relation to world religions.

Taunalyn contributed a chapter to Mormon Women Have Their Say: Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection.