
2025 Early Career Orientation (ECO) Facilitators/Speakers



Xochitl Alvizo
Associate Professor of Religious Studies California State University, Northridge

Margarita Benitez
Former Chancellor UPR-Cayey, Former Executive Director Puerto Rico Endowment for the Humanities

María Del Socorro Castañeda
Co-Founder & Chief Education Officer Becoming Mujeres, California

Elizabeth Conde-Frazier
Executive Director, Retired; Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana, Independent Scholar, Mentor and Practical Theologian

Yara González-Justiniano
Assistant Professor of Religion, Culture, and Psychology Vanderbilt University

Nora Lozano-Díaz
Executive Director, Christian Latina Leadership Institute

Christopher C. Rios-Sueverkruebbe
Grant Proposal Development Coordinator, Stony Brook University

Christopher D. Tirres
Michael J. Buckley, S.J. Endowed Chair & Strategic Advisor to the Dean for Mission Integration, Santa Clara University

2025 ECO Participants


Diana Elizabeth Rodríguez Click
Independent Scholar

César "CJ" Baldelomar
Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Saint Mary's College of California

Matthew Esquivel
Director of Pastoral Care, Storehouse Church, Dallas House of Prayer

Francisco Herrera
Independent Scholar

Mónica Isabel Rey
Adjunct Professor, Babson College

Rudolph "Rudy" Reyes II
Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics and Latinx Studies, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Christian Sánchez
Assistant Professor of New Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary