Noel Alumit
We’re thrilled to announce {that a} new affiliate editor has joined the Lion’s Roar Basis—Noel Alumit. His focus will likely be on selling the voices of Asian American Buddhists. Working with the total assist of our print editorial, digital, and publishing groups, he’ll join with leaders, lecturers, and organizers to debate neighborhood wants and viewpoints and to determine and interact new writers, lecturers, and spokespeople.
Over time, Lion’s Roar has dramatically elevated the quantity and prominence of lecturers and practitioners of shade in all our publications. With Noel becoming a member of us, we can go a lot additional.
Noel will likely be working carefully with fellow affiliate editors Mariana Restrepo, Ayo Pamela Yetunde, and Mihiri Tillakaratne who had been employed in 2021. Mariana works to amplify the voices of Latino Buddhists, whereas Ayo focuses on Black Buddhists, and Mihiri, like Noel, is concentrated on Asian American Buddhists. This proficient workforce of affiliate editors has been funded by the Kataly Basis.
That can assist you get to know Noel somewhat higher, we’ve requested him to share a bit about himself.
I’m honored to function affiliate editor at Lion’s Roar masking Asian American Buddhism. I’ve been an Asian American and queer advocate for over twenty years working with the Asian American theatre firm East West Gamers and the Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Staff, and as a founding member of API Equality-LA, a queer Asian and Pacific Islander social justice group. I additionally had the pleasure of serving as a California State Commissioner on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs, informing the Governor’s workplace about points regarding my neighborhood.
As a author, I’ve revealed two novels, Letters to Montgomery Clift and Speaking to the Moon, a Los Angeles Instances bestseller. My work tends to discover themes of immigration, queerness, displacement, and spirituality. My fiction and nonfiction have been revealed in USA At this time, the Asian Pacific American Journal, McSweeney’s, StoryQuarterly, Greatest Homosexual Tales, 2012, the Los Angeles Evaluation of Books, and lots of others. I lately obtained a grant to jot down a novel about Nineteen Twenties Hollywood.
I’ve labored in academia as employees or adjunct college on the College of California, Los Angeles, the College of Southern California, and the College of the West. Oh, and I’m additionally a multidisciplinary artist participating in efficiency and the visible arts. I’ve a BFA in drama.
My very eclectic life is sustained by Buddhism. I deepened my follow by incomes a Grasp of Divinity in Buddhist chaplaincy at UWest and was ordained via the Worldwide Middle for Chinese language Buddhist Tradition and Schooling. I’ve contributed chapters to A Thousand Arms: A Guidebook to Caring for Your Buddhist Neighborhood and Refuge within the Storm: Voices in Buddhist Disaster Care (forthcoming). I facilitate meditation teams for Meditation Coalition and LA Artcore.
Please attain out to me when you have Asian American Buddhist tales we should always hear about. My electronic mail is [email protected]