Grace Mariette Agolia is a PhD candidate in Systematic Theology with a minor in History of Christianity at Boston College (BC). She is also completing the Licentiate in Sacred Theology at BC’s Clough School of Theology and Ministry (CSTM), where she previously studied for the Master of Theological Studies (2019). She did her undergraduate degree in Theology at the University of Notre Dame (2017), and she is originally from Long Island, New York.

Grace’s primary theological interest is ecclesiology, and her dissertation focuses on the role of ministry in the church’s sacramental mediation of God’s grace. She has published articles on the theological aesthetics of sign language in the liturgy (Worship, 2017) and on the theme of silence in Karl Rahner’s theology (Philosophy & Theology, 2019). She is a regular contributor to the daily prayer companion Give Us This Day, and she edited Richard R. Gaillardetz's While I Breathe, I Hope: A Mystagogy of Dying (Liturgical Press, 2024).

Grace has engaged in liturgical ministry, sacramental preparation, catechesis, and faith formation in various parishes, and she is connected with the Deaf Catholic community. Before beginning doctoral studies, she spent a year in the L’Arche Daybreak community in Richmond Hill, Ontario, and she currently serves on the board of directors for the L’Arche Boston North community in Haverhill, Massachusetts.