Grace Kao has begun to join fellow senior colleague, Roger Nam (the PI), and 4 junior colleagues (Janette Hur Ok, Lisa Cleath, Peng Yin, and Aizaiah Yong) on a yearlong Wabash Intergenerational Mentoring Grant ($30,000). Over monthly Zoom sessions, a dinner fellowship...
Grace Kao is a Senior Fellow in a two-year “Theological Education Between the Times” (TEBT) Project (Director, Ted A. Smith) which is hosted by Candler School of Theology, Emory University. She is participating in Phase III of the project and their first...
Dr. Kao participated in a 3-day gathering of human rights, reproductive justice, indigenous, and women’s rights scholars and activists in Las Vegas, Nevada. We had a wide-ranging discussion about the state of democracy in the U.S., how RJ activists might best do...
Grace Kao joined a 4-day Wabash Project originally entitled “Mana Wāhine and Aloha ‘Āina: Embodying a Tehomic Pedagogy” which was originally to meet in Hawai’i but ended up taking place in St. Petersburg, Florida. Under the leadership of Project...
Grace Kao begun her year-long Wabash Center for Teaching & Learning project entitled “Teaching at the Intersections: Re-imagining Feminist, Womanist, Asian, and Latina and Indigenous Theological Pedagogies. Elizabeth Gandalfo and Joy McDougall were the...
Grace Kao participated in a Wabash Peer Mentoring Cluster Grant with Monica A. Coleman, Esther Chung-Kim, and Carleen Mandolfo (AY 2020-2021) Through delayed by the pandemic, they eventually met from Oct 8-10 and July 21-23 in Redondo Beach, California. More Info They...