Helen R. Graham, M.M.

Sr. Helen R. Graham, M.M., was born in 1937 in Brooklyn, New York and entered the Maryknoll Sisters in 1956. She was assigned to the Philippines in 1967 and worked first in Datu Piang, Cotabato, before joining the faculties of the Sisters Formation Institute (now Institute of Formation and Religious Studies [IFRS]) and Maryknoll (now Miriam) College in 1968. She received a Master of Arts in Theology from the Ateneo de Manila University (1971), a Masters in Sacred Theology from the Jesuit School at Berkeley, CA (1983), and a PhD in Theology from the Ateneo de Manila (1995). She had been a member of the Catholic Biblical Association of the Philippines (CBAP) since its inception in 1999 and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the CBAP (2003–2009; 2010–2011). She is the author of There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Essays in Lukan Theology (1978); You Shall Be Handed Over: The Persecution Prediction in Mark 13:9–13 (1987); “Sing O Barren One …” and other Essays on Biblical Themes (2007); and more than fifty articles.