CLASP—which still aims to provide shelter and a new start for LGBTQIA people fleeing from anti-gay countries—has instituted some changes, according to a press release.
For example, Chicago LGBT Asylum Support Program will now be known as Chicago LGBT Asylum Support PARTNERS. In addition, the renamed organization has new leadership. Co-founder the Rev. Lois McCullen Parr, a former Broadway United Methodist Church co-pastor, is now Reconciling Ministries’ Northern regional organizer in Michigan. (John Adewoye and Dennis Ojiyoma are the fellow CLASP co-founders.)
McCullen Parr performed CLASP’s administrative and marketing tasks.
LGBT seminarian Jason Carson Wilson was tapped as operations manager. Wilson, a Chicago Theological Seminary Master of Divinity candidate, has volunteered for much of CLASP’s duration. [Note: Wilson is a freelance writer for Windy City Times.] Taylor Gould, a Garrett Evangelical seminarian, and volunteer Mark Hayward round out the operations team.
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