The Rev. Ingrid Wang is pastor at Bethel United Methodist Church in Upper Marlboro, Md., and leader of the Asian American and Pacific Islander United Methodist Clergywomen Association.

The Rev. Constance Pak is a United Methodist Church pastor and leader of its United Methodist Association of Korean Clergywomen. She currently serves at Lake Ronkonkoma United Methodist Church in Lake Grove, N.Y.

The Rev. Cristian De La Rosa is a clinical assistant professor of contextual theology and practice and director of contextual education and community partnerships at Boston University’s School of Theology. She is also head of the United Methodist Church’s Hispanic/Latina Methodist Clergywomen’s group.

The Rev. Anita Philips is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church and heads its Native American United Methodist Clergywomen’s group. She serves in its Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference.

Read a March 20, 2014, story from the United Methodist News Service about the rise of women pastors within the United Methodist Church.

Sara Hurwitz is the dean of Yeshivat Maharat, a Modern Orthodox Jewish yeshiva that ordains women. She was the first woman to be ordained as “rabba” by an Orthodox institution in the U.S.  

The organization Black Clergy Women of the United Methodist Church works to support, retain and foster black clergywomen in the United Methodist Church. The Rev. Telley Lynnette Gadson is president. Contact via website form or call Gadson, 864-848-7141.

Women Can Be Priests calls itself a scholarly website, and it gathers research, resources and other information supporting the ordination of women as Catholic priests. It maintains a page of international scholars who support or oppose the ordination of women and provides contact information.

Roman Catholic Womenpriests is an organization that advocates for and ordains women as Catholic priests. Its ordained women are not recognized as priests by the broader Roman Catholic Church. It maintains a page listing all of its ordained women with contact information as well as a page of women priests by region with contact information. The main […]