Carla Mae Streeter, O.P., is a Dominican of the Congregation of Catherine of Siena in Racine, Wisconsin. She is presently Professor Emerita of Systematic Theology at Aquinas Institute of Theology, a graduate school and seminary sponsored by the Dominicans of the Central Province adjoined to St. Louis University.

Using the resources of the Lonergan Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, she completed doctoral studies with the Canadian Jesuits at Regis College of the Toronto School of Theology in Toronto in 1986. She was co-recipient of the first Jean-Marc Laporte Scholarship Award for academic excellence, and the first woman to complete a theological doctorate at Regis College. Her experience includes eleven years of lay leadership training on the parish level, spiritual direction and social advocacy. She lives in St. Louis where she is active on the Board of the Interfaith Partnership of Metropolitan St. Louis and other ecumenical and interfaith activities, including the Board of ITEST, the Institute for the Theological Encounter with Science and Technology.