Pablo Vazquez is a Ph.D. student at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.  Previously, Pablo earned an MA in Religions with a focus on Zoroastrian Studies and New Religious Movements from SOAS University of London (affiliating with the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute for Zoroastrian Studies) and an MDiv with a multireligious and comparative theological approach from Starr King School for the Ministry.

Pablo has also spoken at multiple conferences, written various papers, delivered a variety of lectures, and completed a new translation of the Zoroastrian Gathas, internationally published as “The Sacred Gathas of Zarathushtra and the Old Avestan Canon,” available through Mantra Books. Pablo is the host of the public education series “Zoroastrianism 101,” a free, accessible introduction to Zoroastrianism available on YouTube through his public scholarship channel, Soul Roots.

With a deep interest in pilgrimage, Pablo not only studies it academically but also engages with it as a main spiritual practice with Pablo having traveled around the world to experience and explore pilgrimage sites and paths directly. As such, Pablo is proud to support the Berkeley Art & Interreligious Pilgrimage Project in any way possible.