Sr. Maya
Sr. Teresa Maya, CCVI, will be CHA's senior director for theology and sponsorship, beginning Oct. 23.
She was congregational leader for the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio from 2014 to 2022 and had served on the congregation's leadership team since 2008.
She served as president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious from 2016 to 2019. Diarmuid Rooney, CHA vice president of sponsorship and mission services, said Sr. Maya "played a pivotal role in guiding multiple congregations as they restructured their ministries to meet the challenges of the future."
Sr. Maya also has served on leadership boards for CHRISTUS Health, where she advocated for fruitful relationships between sponsors and governance leaders.
Born and raised in Mexico, Sr. Maya entered the Sisters of Charity in that country and professed her vows in 2002. She was a principal in the congregation's Mexican schools prior to serving in congregational leadership.
Sr. Maya has a doctor of philosophy in history from El Colegio de Mexico; a master of arts in systematic theology from the Graduate Theological Union; and a bachelor of arts from Yale University.