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Trinity Ordoña | |
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Born | San Diego, California |
Nationality | Filipina |
Occupation(s) | Academic, Grassroots organizer, Reverend |
Spouse | Desirée Thompson |
Awards | Northern California GLBT Historical Society Award for Individual Historic Achievement 2008 Phoenix Award Honorees from Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz |
Academic work | |
Discipline | American Studies, LGBT Studies, Liberal Arts, Community Studies and Politics, History of Asian Americans |
Sub-discipline | Queer and Transgender Asian and Pacific Islander Ethnohistory |
Institutions | City College of San Francisco |
Main interests | Queer women of color health, Social stratification |
Notable works | Coming Out Together: An Ethnohistory of the Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women's and Transgendered People's Movement of San Francisco |
Rev. Trinity Ordoña is a lesbian Filipino-American college teacher, activist, community organizer, and ordained minister currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is notable for her grassroots work on intersectional social justice. Her activism includes issues of voice and visibility for Asian/Pacific gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals and their families,[1] Lesbians of color,[2] and survivors of sexual abuse.[3] Her works include her dissertation Coming Out Together: an ethnohistory of the Asian and Pacific Islander queer women's and transgendered people's movement of San Francisco,[4] as well as various interviews and articles published in anthologies like Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity and Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology. She co-founded Asian and Pacific Islander Family Pride (APIFP), which "[sustains] support networks for API families with members who are LGBTQ,"[5] founded Healing for Change, "a CCSF student organization that sponsors campus-community healing events directed to survivors of violence and abuse,"[6] and is currently an instructor in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Department at City College of San Francisco.[7]