Ma. Maricel S. Ibita, STD, Ph.D is Associate Professor at the Department of Theology – Ateneo de Manila University. She finished her postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Her research focus include narrative, poetry, and metaphor studies in the Bible; feminist, liberationist, social science, trauma, ecological-sustainability-eschatological hermeneutics, and the use of Jewish-Christian sources in interpreting the Scriptures. In 2022, she finished coordinating the Urban Poor Women and Children with Academics for Reaching & Delivering on UNSDGs in the the Philippines (UPWARD-UP) funded by VLIR-UOS Belgium, and her research fellowship at WWU-Muenster, Germany. Currently, she is working on her research Shalom: Learning, Teaching, and Living Sustainability Theology.

Known as “The Catholic Comedian” with almost half a million followers across Facebook and Tiktok; Most Disciplined in Class: Prep to Grade 1, Ateneo de Manila Grade School; He finished a degree in BS Management at the Ateneo de Manila University; Cum Laude, Master in Business Administration, Asian Institute of Management; He served the Jesuit Bukidnon Indigenous People Ministry in 2022 as an IP Social Enterprise and Enrichment Development Officer.