Berkley Center

Teresa Delgado is dean of St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of theology and religious studies at St. John’s University. She received her doctorate from Union Theological Seminary and has published on topics including decolonial theology, diversity in higher education, transformational pedagogies, constructive theology and ethics, and justice for racially, ethnically, and sexually minoritized persons.

Lin Henke (C’23) is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgetown University studying Theology and Religious Studies. In 2022, she received the Kalorama Fellowship to pursue her research on the connection between farming and spiritual experience. After graduation, she is headed to Princeton Theological Seminary as a Master of Divinity candidate.

Mary E. Hunt, Ph.D., is the co-founder and co-director of the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER). A Catholic feminist theologian, she is engaged in public-facing theology about which she writes and lectures. She chairs the American Academy of Religion Status of LGBTIQ Persons in the Profession Committee.

Author Alice McDermott’s eight novels have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her novel Charming Billy won the National Book Award for fiction. Her upcoming novel, Absolution, will be published in November by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Sister Celeste Mokrzycki, SSJ, is the chaplain for the School of Nursing and the School of Health at Georgetown University and a Sister of Saint Joseph of Philadelphia. In New Jersey and Philadelphia, Mokrzycki ministered in various parishes as a pastoral associate for liturgy, family life, bereavement, spirituality, Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, and young adults.

Annie Selak serves as the associate director of the Georgetown University Women’s Center. She is an expert in feminist ecclesiology and studies wounds in the church, or moments where the church fails to credibly live into its mission and causes harm. This includes instances of racism and sexism, as well as the clergy sex abuse crisis. Guided by a feminist methodology, Selak integrates the lived experience of women with a robust vision for the church. She has over 15 years of experience in Catholic ministry, and her writing has appeared in Modern Theology, Journal of Catholic Social Thought, Washington Post, National Catholic Reporter, The Conversation, Commonweal, and America. She also taught a spring 2023 class supported through the Berkley Center's Doyle Seminars project. Selak earned her Ph.D. in systematic theology at Boston College and her M.Div. at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.

Angele Cabrini White is founder and chairperson of the Black and Women’s (B&W) History Ministry at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Washington, DC. A native of New Orleans, she studied microbiology at Xavier University of Louisiana, and received two Masters in Public Health from Tulane University.