Michigan native Rebecca Pawloski came to Rome in 2005 after working in communications for a Catholic non-profit. After working in the Vatican at the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, she obtained a Diploma in Safeguarding at the Pontifical Gregorian University’s Institute of Psychology (Centre for Child Protection). As a doctoral scholar of the Pontifical Gregorian University, her dissertation is focused on the witness of adult survivors of clerical child sexual abuse and the pneumatology of René Girard. She is also an adjunct professor of theology at Loyola University of Chicago’s John Felice Rome Center.