Lisa Yun Lee: The Worlds We Make Together

Abstract

Cultural activist and the Executive Director of the National Public Housing Museum, Dr. Lisa Yun Lee, will share insights into her work building and leading organizations committed to social justice, community, and joy.

Biography

Lisa Yun Lee (BA, Bryn Mawr College, Ph.D., Duke University) is the Executive Director of the National Public Housing Museum, a cultural activist, an Associate Professor of Public Culture and Museum Studies in the UIC School of Art & Art History, and teaching faculty with the Prison and Neighborhood Arts/Education Project at Stateville Prison. Lee is working with public housing residents to open a museum in the last remaining building of the historic Jane Addams Homes with the mission to preserve, interpret, and propel housing as a human right. The Museum will include the world's largest collection of oral histories of people who grew up in public housing, three restored apartments from several different generations of diverse public housing families, storytelling spaces to bridge the arts and innovative public policy, an Entrepreneurship Hub that includes a social justice cooperative and museum store owned in partnership with public housing residents, and contemporary art spaces.

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