Phyllis Zagano (born August 25, 1947) is an American author and academic. She has written and spoken on the role of women in the Catholic Church and is an advocate for the ordination of women as deacons.Zagano was born in Queens, New York. She graduated from Sacred Heart Academy in 1965. She has a BA from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York (1969); master's degrees in communications from Boston University (1970), in literature from Long Island University (1970), and in theology from St. John's University (1991); and a PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1979. Wikipedia