Jasmine A. Lee Biography

Dr. Jasmine A. Lee is a diversity, equity, inclusion and justice scholar, practitioner, trainer and

coach. She currently serves as the Director of Inclusive Excellence, and leads the Initiatives for

Identity, Inclusion & Belonging team at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. In this

capacity, she works with students, staff and faculty to create inclusive campus environments

through direct programming and strategic Divisional leadership. Dr. Lee’s background

encompasses campus climate studies and crisis response, inclusive hiring and supervision best

practices, teaching and inclusive classroom pedagogy, diversity action planning and equity

assessments, strategic student success outreach and academic advising, as well as traditional

diversity and inclusion programming.

In 2019, Dr. Lee founded J. Lee Consulting Group, LLC, where she works collaboratively to

provide training, consulting, coaching and organizational change services; partnering with clients

to curate unique and engaging solutions that lead to sustainable and measurable change. Dr. Lee

is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI), a certified diversity

trainer with the National Coalition Building Institute, and a certified Mental Health First Aid

instructor.

As a social worker, Dr. Lee holds a BSW from Eastern Michigan University and a MSW from

the University of Michigan. She earned her Ph.D. at Michigan State University, where she used

Critical Race Theory as a framework to study the experiences of Black, first-generation, low-income

college students pursuing degrees at a Predominantly White Institution. She is a

published author with work focused on academic advising for students of color, intergroup

dialogue, and social justice education, with forthcoming work on radical love in the academy and

cultivating belonging in first year seminars.

Dr. Lee is whole human who loves cartoons, traveling, laughing at corny jokes, hanging out with

her puppy, and spending time with family and friends. Beyond NACADA she is an active

member of many organizations, including ACPA® – Student College Educators International,

and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. More than anything Dr. Lee wants people to know that she

believes in the world changing and redeeming power of radical revolutionary love, and asks you

to consider the words of Valerie Kaur: “revolutionary love is the choice to enter into wonder and

labor for others, our opponents, and for ourselves in order to transform the world around us.”

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