Dr. Kao recently moderated the opening panel on intergenerational trauma and collective healing during the annual PANAAWTM conference while meeting with fellow board members to engage in strategic planning. As co-chair of the mentoring and education group, she also...
Dr. Kao was honored to serve as the 50th Antoinette Brown Lecturer at Vanderbilt Divinity School on March 4-5, 2024. The title of her talk was “Can Surrogacy be Feminist? How about Christian?” Dr. Kao enjoyed meeting with the Divinity school community,...
Dr. Kao’s My Body, Their Baby: A Progressive Christian Vision for Surrogacy (2023) won the 2024 silver medal in theology for the Illumination Book Awards. Since 2013, Illumination Book Awards have celebrated “the best titles written from a Christian...
Grace Kao hosted a book launch event for authors Soo Jin Lee and Linda Yoon of Where I Belong: Healing Trauma and Embracing Asian American Identity. The community had an opportunity to hear the what, why, and how of the book through a Q&A that Dr. Kao facilitated...
Dr. Kao was interviewed with by James Carleton of ABC with two others (Sara Jefford and Margaret Somerville) to discuss her views on surrogacy in the aftermath of the pope’s recent denunciation of surrogate motherhood and call for global ban of the practice. You...
