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Joy Pettigrew is the community partnership manager at BJC, deepening and cultivating partnerships with BJC’s long-standing supporters and our growing Christians Against Christian Nationalism network across the country. 

Originally from Hong Kong, she seeks to uplift the stories of Asian American Christians and empower them toward civic engagement. She is driven by her desire to see Asian American Christians activated for collective liberation and civic involvement. Out of this commitment, she is a founding member of an emerging Chicago chapter of a coalition for Asian American Christian churches.

As a movement builder, speaker and community advocate, her professional career includes significant experience with a faith-based nonprofit, where she focused on developing college students in areas of identity, faith and leadership. Additionally, she continues to lead learning cohorts for Asian Americans on themes of faith and civic engagement and has moderated forums exploring AAPI racial identity, Christianity and politics.

Her undergraduate degree is in education and sociology, and she has lived in the Chicagoland area for the past 13 years. In her personal time, she enjoys cooking, baking and bringing new life to furniture through refinishing and upcycling.