Nina’s varied career path as a structural engineer, teacher, hospital chaplain, seminarian, and community leader inform her vocational discernment to ministry and scholarship. She has a Masters of Divinity with a Concentration in Theology, Ecology, and Faith Formation and is pursuing a PhD in Practical Theology and Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary. Her doctoral interests focus on sacramentality within the Catholic imagination and how it is expressed in homilies and preaching for the contemporary church.

Nina embraces how a nourished contemplative life in conjunction with an active life of service fuel the faithjourney, and she believes companioning one another in joy and suffering is central to an ever-deepening relationship with God. She has completed two Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) units, with chaplain experience for critical care, mother-baby, and oncology patients. She studied contemplative dialogue with a Benedictine oblate for four years and has a passion for literature and language.

Nina is a recipient of the 2023 Jagow Award in Preaching, the 2023 Asian American Ministry Award forleadership, and the 2024 Paul Rech Memorial award in Practical Theology at Princeton Seminary. Her home soils are the Philippines, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, including Swarthmore Collegeand the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives with her husband and two teenage children at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, where she serves as an accompanist, liturgist, preacher and mentor for the Catholic community.