Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee is a second-year PhD student broadly interested in the role of state-society relations in equitable economic development. He explores this through two parallel research agendas: (1) local workforce development planning for populations facing multiple, compounded barriers to employment (e.g. the homeless, the formerly incarcerated and the undocumented) in California; and (2) the role of transnational advocacy networks in advancing the economic self-determination of indigenous Pacific Islander communities in the geographical region of Micronesia. Kevin actively collaborates with advocacy organizations in the United States and Oceania, and maintains secondary research interests in economic justice organizing, indigenous Pacific Islander political thought and nonprofit performance management.