Kristine Chong

SHE/THEY | LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Kristine Chong is a diasporic Korean spiritual care practitioner, facilitator, editor, and director of the Shay Moral Injury Center. Networks and communities they collaborate with include Woori Network, Inheritance magazine, Faith Matters Network, PANAAWTM (Pacific, Asian, and North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry), and Faith Aloud at All-Options. Kristine's experiences include community organizing, coalition work, peer learning facilitation, and spiritual accompaniment among BIPOC, Asian American, queer, immigrant, refugee, formerly incarcerated, maritime worker, survivor, and activist communities. Their spiritual lineages are that of Korean Indigenous and ancestral wisdoms and freedom movements, contemplative traditions, and liberationist communities of care.