Paola A. Quintero-Araujo is the director of St. Junipero Serra Institute in the Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas. With more than 10 years of ministry experience at the parish and diocesan level, she has served in catechetics with adults, children, families, and young adults, RCIA, and sacramental preparation, as well as in catechist formation, Hispanic ministry, and Pastoral Juvenil Hispana. She also received an MA in theology with a concentration in catechesis from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, where she was part of Church Life Institute’s Echo graduate service program. She is fully bilingual and bicultural and enjoys teaching in both languages and mentoring catechetical/pastoral ministers.