Lee-Sean Huang
Strategy/Design
Lee-Sean Huang comes from an island called Taiwan and after living on three different continents now inhabits an island called Manhattan. He brings a multidisciplinary skill set to Purpose with experience in communications, technology, advocacy, and art.
He has worked with a range of non-profits including Avaaz.org, Human Rights Watch, Creative Commons, and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. He is a co-founder of Hepnova Multimedia and a co-author of the textbook Freedom Vs. Security: The Struggle For Balance (Central European University Press, 2009). He also taught English for three years as part of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme.
Lee-Sean holds a BA in Government from Harvard University and a masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He has also studied at Arizona State University, Lund University, University of Barcelona, Cours de Civilisation Francaise de la Sorbonne, and The New School. He is a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts MFA Design for Social Innovation.
Outside of work, Lee-Sean produces music and digital art, plays capoeira, serves as the dean and trustee of the Awesome Foundation NYC, and blogs at leesean.net.
Twitter: @leesean
