Trinity Ordoña is a lesbian Filipino-American professor, activist, community organizer, and ordained minister currently residing in the Bay Area. She is notable for her grassroots work on intersectional social justice. Her activism includes issues of health and visibility for Lesbians of color[1], LGBTQ individuals and their families[2], and survivors of sexual abuse[3]. Her works include the book 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, edited by Maria P. Root, and Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology, edited by Shirley Hune and Gail M. Nomura. She cofounded San Francisco’s chapter of API-PFLAG[5], and is currently a professor in American Studies at City College of San Francisco, coordinating Healing for Change, “a CCSF student organization that sponsors campus-community healing events directed to survivors of violence and abuse.”[6]

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  1. ^ McInaney, Maureen (26 June 2002). "UC San Francisco Hosts Bay Area Lesbian Health Conference". Ascribe News. Factiva. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. ^ Fern, Elizabeth (26 June 1996). "TRINITY ORDONA". SFGate. Retrieved 25 Feb 2017.
  3. ^ Nakano, Mia. "Trinity Ordona 05". Mia Nakano & The Visibility Project. Vimeo. Retrieved 25 Feb 2017.
  4. ^ Ordona, Trinity (2000). Coming out together : an ethnohistory of the Asian and Pacific Islander queer women's and transgendered people's movement of San Francisco. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415978088.
  5. ^ Cianciotto, Jason; Cahill, Sean (19 Apr, 2012). LGBT Youth in America's Schools. University of Michigan Press. p. 22. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ "Trinity Ordona: Biography". Women's Spirituality Program. California Institute of Integral Studies. Retrieved 23 March 2017.