A Living, Expanding Network

Foskett reflects on the growth and evolving impact of PANAAWTM over the past forty years. She recalls attending her first meeting in 1987 as a student and how the organization helped her explore her identity as a transnational adoptee. While early discussions often overlooked adoptee experiences, the network has since become more inclusive and diverse, allowing space for various Asian and Asian American identities. She highlights PANAAWTM's dynamic structure, welcoming both long-term and occasional participants, and fostering critical reflection across shared and differing experiences. She emphasizes the network's impact on biblical studies, particularly through scholars like Gale Yee and Jin Young Choi, whose works integrate feminist, postcolonial, and embodied perspectives. PANAAWTM's commitment to intersectionality, transnational collaboration, and justice-oriented interpretation aligns with future goals. She celebrates PANAAWTM as a vital scholarly and spiritual community that continues to influence theology and biblical scholarship in transformative ways.

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