Lucy Huh

Education

MA, University of California, Irvine
BA, University of California, Irvine

Research Interests

• Gender-based violence in religion
• Clergy abuse of women
• Clericalism

Background

Lucy Huh obtained her bachelors and masters degrees from the University of California, Irvine. She is committed to advancing the research pioneered by the late Dr. Diana Garland on clergy abuse of women, and advocates for legislative and institutional reform to prevent abuse in religious contexts. She has engaged policymakers on legislative reform and recently spearheaded the efforts behind Senate Bill 894 in California to criminalize clergy sexual exploitation of adults. She is a doctoral research fellow at Baylor University's Center for Church and Community Impact (C3I) and serves on the Board of Directors for The North American Association of Christians in Social Work (NACSW) and Awake (a national organization addressing clergy abuse in the Catholic Church).