Project Director of the Institute on Spiritual Violence, Healing and Social Change
Karina Vargas is Costa Rican, and an educator, feminist theologian, linguist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a Master’s Degree in Global Leadership from Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California, and a Master’s Degree in Studies of Social and Family Violence from Universidad Estatal a Distancia located in San José, Costa Rica. She currently serves at Soulforce as Project Director of the Institute on Spiritual Violence, Healing and Social Change. She is also a professor of Liberation Theologies at the Center for World Education and Experience at the University of Augsburg in Minnesota. Among her main research focuses are the power dynamics involved in spiritual-religious violence and therapeutic processes to support survivors of these forms of violence.
Find out more about Karina’s work and projects:
Contact: karina@soulforce.org
