Diana Dudoit Raiche
Executive Director
Diana Dudoit Raiche, Executive Director of the Department of Religious Education at the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), has taught in Catholic, public and private schools, parish religious education programs, diocesan adult faith formation programs and at the university level. She is a former parish director of catechetical ministry, director of the catechumenate, chairperson of a diocesan education commission and consultant to dioceses regarding the baptismal catechumenate.  At NCEA, she has been responsible for NCEA’s Information for Growth (IFG), a faith and spiritual formation survey for adults, and the Assessment of Catechesis/Religious Education (NCEA ACRE), a religious education assessment tool for students, providing in-services for catechetical leadership in schools and parishes. In her capacity as executive director, she serves as a consultant to the Bishops’ Committee on Catechesis and works as a collaborator with other national offices on various projects, such as the adolescent catechesis project.  Having earned the MA in Practical Theology from the University of San Diego, she is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

Robert Brancatelli, Ph.D.
Assistant Executive Director
Robert Brancatelli, Assistant Executive Director of Religious Education at the National Catholic Educational Associal (NCEA), came to the organization from Santa Clara University , Santa Clara , California , where he has been Assistant Professor since 2001. He has taught courses in catechesis , liturgy , and the catechumenate and has published articles on Hispanic popular religion in Worship and Pastoral Music and on transformative catechesis in the annual volume of the College Theology Society (2003) and Horizons (2008). He has also contributed to Trent and Vatican II: Change and Renewal , Oxford University Press , 2005. He has been awarded several grants for research on catechesis and liturgical inculturation in and . He is bilingual in English and Spanish. Having served in pastoral ministry at the parish level and in the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Diocese of San Jose , he knows the challenges parish catechetical ministers face. He was marketing and promotions director for the Liturgical Conference in Washington , D.C. while finishing his doctorate at The Catholic University of America.