Kathryn de la Rosa is a scholar of religion researching Catholicism in east and insular southeast Asia. She is currently writing an MA thesis about the canonization of Lorenzo Ruiz, toward a larger work on the politics of martyrdom. Most of their profesional work has been in theater as a new play dramaturg and producer. Kathryn is passionate about open source, open access, and cryptography and spends most free time knitting, astrologizing, and tinkering in a Linux server.