Karina Vargas is Costa Rican, educator and feminist theologian. She holds a master's degree in Global Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA), and a master's degree in Studies of Social and Family Violence from Universidad Estatal a Distancia (San José, Costa Rica). She has worked for more than 15 years as an educator in formal and non-formal programs. She currently combines her educational work with research on religion and violence. She also accompanies a group of young migrants and asylum seekers in Costa Rica, where she resides. Karina enjoys spending time with her family, practicing sports, music, playing with children, conversation, traveling, learning languages, cats, movies, drinking water, coffee and wine.