NRJ API LGBT Network on Religion and Justice for Asian Pacific Islander Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender People

The Network on Religion and Justice for Asian American and Pacific Islander Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people (NRJ-API-LGBT) is a coalition of organizations and individuals affirming the dignity and spiritual wholeness of API LGBT people of faith. We work to create visibility and connection, to educate and advocate, and to transform both our faith communities and our larger world.

The NRJ is jointly funded and coordinated by PANA Civil Liberty and Faith Project and CLGS Racial Ethnic Roundtable Project.

Who's in our network?

• Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific and Asian North American Religion (PANA Institute)
• Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS)
• GRACE
• API Family Pride
• Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA)
• Asian Equality
• Pine United Methodist Church
• Buena Vista United Methodist Church

If you'd like to get involved, contact Elizabeth Leung at eleung@psr.edu or (510)849-8937
or join the NRJ-API-LGBT e-list on YahooGroups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nrj-api-lgbt

Our staff

Rev. Elizabeth Leung is the coordinator (volunteer) for the NRJ-API-LGBT.

Rev. Leung earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in 2006 and was ordained in the United Church of Christ in 2007. She is academically trained in the study of Christian Spirituality. Her dissertation, titled Body, Self and Culture in the Study of Christian Spirituality, focuses on how embodiment in spiritual experience operates within the culture matrices of language and practices. Elizabeth is also a trained spiritual director.

Rev. Elizabeth Leung can be reached at eleung@psr.edu or at (510) 849-8937.