Grace Mariette Agolia is a doctoral candidate in Systematic Theology with a minor in History of Christianity. Her primary theological interest is ecclesiology, and her dissertation is on the role of ministry in the church’s sacramental mediation of God’s grace. She is also completing the Licentiate in Sacred Theology at Boston College’s Gloria L. and Charles I. Clough School of Theology and Ministry, and her thesis is on the influence of papal visions of the church on priestly formation since Vatican II.

She previously studied for the Master of Theological Studies at the Gloria L. and Charles I. Clough School of Theology and Ministry (2019), and she did her undergraduate degree in Theology at the University of Notre Dame (2017). She is originally from Long Island, New York. 

Grace serves on the steering committee of the Karl Rahner Society, which meets at the annual convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and as co-convener for the Ecclesiology topic session at College Theology Society. She is a regular contributor to the daily prayer companion, Give Us This Day, and she edited Dr. Richard R. Gaillardetz's While I Breathe, I Hope: A Mystagogy of Dying (Liturgical Press, 2024). She has also done research on the experiences of culturally Deaf Catholics across the United States, and she has engaged in catechetical formation, sacramental preparation, and liturgical ministries in various parishes.

Before beginning doctoral studies, Grace spent a year living in the L’Arche Daybreak community near Toronto, and she recently served a four-year term on the board of directors for the L'Arche Boston North community in Haverhill, MA.