Father Eddie Fernandez teaches classes in missiology and Latino theology and ministry at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University at Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union. Alongside teaching, Father Fernández publishes, gives workshops and retreats, and assists at local parishes. Among his published works are Mexican American Catholics, awarded a 2008 Catholic Press Association Book Award in the category of pastoral ministry. Father Fernandez’s latest book is Doing Theology as If People Mattered: Encounters in Contextual Theology (with Deborah Ross and Stephen Bevans). He was recently chosen to give the Graduate Theological Union Distinguished Faculty Lectures.