Shaina Ciaccio

Minister and associate professor, University of Valley Forge

The Rev. Shaina Ciaccio is an ordained Assemblies of God minister and associate professor of behavioral sciences at the University of Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in grief and death, pastoral counseling and emotional health. She holds a master of divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and is currently pursuing a doctor of ministry at Duke Divinity School.

With over 18 years of combined experience in pastoral leadership, clinical chaplaincy and undergraduate teaching, her work explores the intersections of spiritual formation in a technological age, pastoral care and the emotional life of ministry leaders.