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María Magdalena Medina Filpo, religious of the Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus, is pursuing a Ph.D. in Theology and Sacred Scriptures at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. She graduated in Sciences of Religion and Biblical Theology with a Master's degree in Ethics and Democracy. She serves as a professor of Sacred Scriptures at the Santo Tomás de Aquino Pontifical Seminary and at the Santo Domingo de Guzmán Theological Center. She is a member of the consultative reflection team of the National Pastoral Institute of the Dominican Republic.
Magdalena is working on her doctoral thesis “A proposal for a theology of salvation from the Latin American context of suffering. Approached from the theological exegetical analysis of Isaiah 52,13-53,12.”