Teresa Delgado

Teresa Delgado is Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program and Professor and Chairperson of the Religious Studies Department at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY. A native New Yorker, Teresa teaches courses at the intersection of theology and ethics, such as Biomedical Ethics and the Christian Tradition, Christian Sexual Ethics, Creative Peacemaking, and Violence, Peace and Social Justice.   Her research interests and scholarship range from diversity in higher education, transformational pedagogies, constructive theology and ethics, and justice for racial/ethnic/sexual minoritized persons.  Teresa's book, A Puerto Rican Decolonial Theology: Prophesy Freedom, was published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. She is currently working on a manuscript in sexual ethics, titled Loving Sex: Envisioning a Relevant Catholic Sexual Ethic. She lives in Mount Vernon, NY with her spouse, Pascal Kabemba, and their four children.