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Ashley Hinojosa is a doctoral student in moral theology at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to that, she received her Bachelor of Arts in theology with a minor in pastoral ministry at the University of Dallas, a Master of Arts in theology through Notre Dame's McGrath Institute for Church Life's Echo Program, where she served within the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, and then went on to receive a Master of Theological Studies at Duke Divinity School.
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