Guesting at Elon University

Guesting at Elon University

At the invitation of Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters, Grace Kao was a guest in her last class on Religion and Reproductive Ethics. Her undergraduate students had read several chapters of Dr. Kao’s latest book on surrogacy and they had a lively discussion about it. This...
Fordham U. Presentation

Fordham U. Presentation

At the invitation of Professor Cristina Traina, Grace Kao delivered a guest presentation to students on Friday, April 19, 2024 on her recent work on surrogacy in her course on religion and reproductive ethics. This was her first visit to Fordham University.  She is...
Guest Teaching at Villanova

Guest Teaching at Villanova

At the invitation of Dr. Vincent Lloyd, Grace Kao was a guest in his Foundations of Theological Ethics course which was comprised of both Masters and PhD students. They had read several chapters of her recent book on surrogacy and had many questions about it. She...
Vanderbilt Div School Class Visit

Vanderbilt Div School Class Visit

Grace Kao spoke to doctoral students of Prof. Melissa Snarr’s class about whether and how to do public-facing work as a “public scholar.” She shared how she made decisions expanding her media presence and public scholarship, how she has navigated the...
Evaluating Surrogacy Laws & Practices

Evaluating Surrogacy Laws & Practices

Grace Kao spoke with students in Jennifer Gumer’s BIOE 6200 Law and Bioethics class about the legal dimensions of surrogacy as well as her experiences as a former surrogate. She enjoyed fielding their question about the wellbeing of children, commercial...
Guest Lecture at Claremont McKenna

Guest Lecture at Claremont McKenna

Prof. Kao was a guest teacher for Prof. Esther Chung-Kim’s RLST 169 Christianity and Politics in East Asia course at Claremont McKenna College. She spoke about Asian American Christianity: the sociological functions on mono-ethnic immigrant churches, why some...