Grace Poore is the Asia Regional Coordinator at OutRight Action International since 2007. She manages regional partnership projects for LGBT access to justice, rights to fundamental freedoms, and protections from domestic violence and family violence. She coordinates the Asia Regional Network on SOGIE and Gender Based Violence (GBV), comprising LGBTI advocates and GBV expertise in Asia. She does trainings on GBV documentation. She co-edited OutRight’s Through The Lens, a report on violence against lesbians, bisexual women and transgender people in Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines and Sri Lanka, and Creeping Criminalization, a report on curtailment of LGBT and women’s rights in Indonesia. She previously worked for 9½ years in the U.S. movement to stop domestic violence. She researched and co-authored Shattered Lives, a report on domestic violence homicides in Asian families in the U.S., published by Asian Pacific Institute on GBV. Her documentary films on the intersectionality of domestic violence and South Asians surviving incestuous child sexual abuse have been viewed in 18 countries. Her blogs have appeared in Huffington Post, New Civil Rights, and Asia Times. Grace holds a Master’s degree from Syracuse University. She is from Malaysia and based in Maryland.
