Margarita A. Mooney

Margarita Mooney Suarez is an Associate Professor of Practical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Mooney Suarez received her B.A. in Psychology from Yale University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University. She has also been on the faculty of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Yale University, Pepperdine University and Princeton University.

In 2016, she founded the Scala Foundation, whose mission is to infuse meaning and purpose into education by promoting classical liberal arts education with a keen attention to beauty and wisdom. Through activities such as conferences, reading groups, seminars, webinars, student trips, intellectual retreats, and intensive programs, Scala equips students, writers, artists, intellectuals, and educators with the ideas and networks needed to revitalize culture and restore the unity of truth, beauty and goodness. In addition to her scholarly publications, she has written for publications that reach wide audiences both inside and outside academia such as Real Clear Policy, Scientific American, First Things, the Hedgehog Review, National Catholic Register, Plough, Comment, Public Discourse, Church Life Journal, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Her work on personalism has been cited in the New York Times by David Brooks. She speaks frequently at academic venues including Yale University, Harvard Law School, and Duke University. She also speaks for local churches, young professionals and events like the New York Encounter.