Grace Y. Kao
Grace Yia-Hei Kao (born 1974) is an Asian American professor of ethics, who specializes in animal and human rights, ecofeminism, and Asian American Christianity. Kao earned her Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degrees from Stanford University, and her PhD. at Harvard University. She is Professor of Ethics at Claremont School of Theology, and was the first Asian American woman to receive tenure there. She has been appointed as the interim Bishop Roy I. Sano and Kathleen A. Thomas-Sano Endowed Chair in Pacific and Asian Theology. Kao is also the co-director of the  Center for Sexuality, Gender, and Religion (CSGR). Kao is the author of "Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World," published in 2011"," and co-editor, with Ilsup Ahn, of "Asian American Christian Ethics: Voices, Methods, Issues," published in 2015. She received the faculty teaching award at Claremont School of Theology in 2011 and 2017.