NRJ API LGBT: Network on Religion and Justice
for Asian Pacific Islander Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People
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About NRJ-API-LGBT
Who are we?
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?
Organizations participating in the NRJ network include:
- 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 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, Asian Pacific Islander Coordinating Minister at CLGS, is the coordinator 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 or at (510) 849-8937.