Dr. Pravina Rodrigues holds a PhD in Theology and Ethics from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, USA. She is Adjunct Faculty at Starr King School for the Ministry and the Graduate Theological Union's Center for Dharma Studies in California, USA. She is  postdoctoral fellow at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, Berkeley, CA (2021, 2022) and Assistant Editor for the Journal of Dharma Studies (Springer). She is Associate Editor of a thirty four-chapter volume at the intersection of ecology and religion titled Religion & Sustainability: Interreligious Resources, Interdisciplinary Responses.  The volume was published under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Series by Springer in 2022. Dr. Rodrigues is Newhall Teaching Fellow (2017, 2018, 2020) and Interreligious Collaborative Research Fellow (2019). Her publication A Śākta Method for Comparative Theology: Upside Down, Inside Out (Lexington Press), offers a Hindu perspective on comparative theology, theology of religions, and interreligious dialogue. Dr. Rodrigues has received her Masters in Comparative Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, BA in Sociology from SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, and Bachelors of Theology from St. Pius X College, Mumbai. Her research interests include postcolonial and decolonial studies, Hindu-Christian comparative theology, interfaith theology, comparative mysticism, and Śākta thealogy.