Dr. Dawn Lee

Dawn Lee, PhD, is an educator, professional development specialist, equity consultant, and talent coach. Her joys are helping people and groups grow and transform through teaching, facilitating, training, coaching, and restorative mediation. As the Faculty Director of Professional and Organizational Development at De Anza College, she develops, coordinates, and delivers equity-minded professional development opportunities for faculty. She provides mentorship and support for tenure-line faculty in their first two years and provides coaching to all faculty to help improve their instructional skills, student success support, and career growth.

As the Founder of Abundant Strategies Collective, she has spent over 20 years accompanying and guiding organizations through change management, delivering custom equity-minded leadership training for teams and coaching diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging-minded professionals. She is a Gallup CliftonStrengths Certified Coach, an INIFAC Certified Virtual Facilitator, and she uses Organizational and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) methodology from CRR Global. She holds a PhD in cultural studies and an MA in American studies.

Her prior roles include Interim Associate Dean of Students at UC Berkeley, Director of Asian Pacific American Student Development at UC Berkeley, Director of The Cultural Centers (The Intercultural Center and the Gender & Sexuality Center) at the University of San Francisco, Associate Director for the Center for Multicultural Learning at Santa Clara University, and Assistant Director of the MOSAIC Cross Cultural Center at San Jose State University. She is currently part-time faculty at San Jose State University in the Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences department. She also is the co-host of From Here Podcast. Read more about Dawn on her LinkedIn page.