Cliff Lee

Cliff Lee is a Professor of Art + Design & Education at Northeastern University. His research, teaching, and social justice advocacy examines and uplifts the ingenuity and creativity of BIPoC urban youth. His community-based research works at the intersections of critical pedagogy, computational thinking, youth culture and identity, media production, technology, transformational game design, creative expression, indigenous knowledge, and ecological justice. His MIT Press book, Code for What? Computer Science for Storytelling and Social Justice, co-authored with Elisabeth Soep, shares findings from his work at YR Media, a national network of youth media creatives. Cliff’s research has appeared in Equity & Excellence in Education; ACM Transactions on Computer Education; Learning, Media and Technology; Linguistics in Education; Research in the Teaching of English; Reading Research Quarterly, The San Francisco Chronicle, and others. Cliff holds a Ph.D. in Urban Schooling from UCLA and M.A. in Education from Stanford University.