Henry Luce Foundation Grant

Dr. Kao is proud to announce receipt of a 3-year, $500,000 grant as a managing board member of the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) and co-principal investigator of the project “Advancing Religious Pluralism and Democracy through Asian American and Pacific Islander Religions.”

She is joined by fellow co-pis Khyati Joshi (Farleigh Dickinson University) and Jane Iwamura (University of the West) with principal investigator Carolyn Chen (UC Berkeley).

The grant will be administered through the University of California, Berkeley, where APARRI is housed at the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion (BCSR) within the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI).

As APARRI noted in our press release, this 3-year project “ushers in a major new phase of APARRI’s work to broaden public understanding of the civic relevance and democratic contributions of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) religious communities.”