Lee is a devoted social innovator and environmental educator. His work explores how co-created approaches to community engagement can improve the design, implementation, and assessment of trans-boundary environmental initiatives. Recent projects include co-creating a community-based research initiative with Boulder Food Rescue, co-leading community development projects in Costa Rica and Israel with The Sustainability Laboratory, and researching rural community learning models with the Earth Child Institute in Brazil. As an organizer of Writer’s Block Collective, Lee is an active member and leader within the Boulder, Colorado poetry community,

Lee holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder, an MA in Environmental Conservation Education from NYU, and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Rochester. His senior thesis project was Computers Composing Music: An Artistic Utilization of Hidden Markov Models. Presently, he is a teaching professor at the University of Colorado Boulder focusing on novel teaching and learning in, about, and for the environment. Lee’s long-term professional goals include building new programs in transformative environmental education and bridging gaps in cross-cultural understanding towards a more unified human society. He also likes to play on mountain tops and create poetry to read under the moonlight.