by admin | Apr 7, 2024 | Professional Service
With fellow PI Roger Nam and 4 junior colleagues (Janette Hur Ok, Lisa Cleath, Peng Yin, and Aizaiah Yong), this Wabash cohort met for a time of generative conversations in Portland, OR with a side-trip to Seattle. They continued their conversations about the road to...
by admin | Mar 9, 2024 | Professional Service
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...
by admin | Feb 17, 2024 | Professional Service
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...
by admin | Sep 8, 2023 | Professional Service
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...
by admin | Jun 20, 2023 | Professional Service
Professor Kao was the co-chair of the 2023 APARRI conference. Held at UC Berkeley from June 20-22, this year’s theme was Envisioning Radical Futures in APA Religions & Communities and featured keynote speaker Gene Luen Yang. In addition to concurrent paper...
by admin | Jan 11, 2023 | Continuing Ed, Professional Service
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...