Dr. Lisa Asedillo (she/hers) is an ethicist and liturgist with research interests in decolonial/postcolonial feminist theory, transpacific and Asian American Christian Ethics, and Philippine studies. Lisa earned her MDiv at Union Theological Seminary and her PhD at Drew University in the Religion and Society area. Lisa’s co-authored chapter, “Becoming Asian American Christian Ethicists,” is included in Asian and Asian American Women’s Contributions to Theology and Religious Studies: Embodying Knowledge, edited by Dr. Kwok Pui Lan (2020); and she is a contributor to INHERITANCE magazine, which amplifies the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience of Christianity. Lisa is also a board member of Pacific Asian North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry (PANAAWTM), an organization for education, mentoring, and networking that was founded in 1984. Given her mixed race heritage, queer identity, and transnational upbringing, she takes seriously that her particular embodiment gestures back towards painful colonial history, and also towards a particular experience with something to offer the work of solidarity, community building and ritual, and spiritually-rooted leadership development.
