Susie Lee

Susie Lee is an artist, entrepreneur, a convener of community, and a small human nurturer. A graduate of Yale, Columbia and UW with degrees in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, education, and art, she researched diabetes, taught chemistry in the NYC public schools, got into medical school, then veered off into sculpture and start-ups. Her focus is on technology and art that amplify human endeavors. She is currently a co-founder of an AI-powered storytelling start up and the executive director of an artistic child-centered organization, Thingyverse, that will create the US’s first performance festival for babies. Susie previously founded a feminist dating app that landed on the front page of The Seattle Times, and her video portraits of residents at an end of life care center and oil workers in the fracking fields have been recognized by a Stranger Genius award, Bronson Fellowship, featured on PBS, and collected by numerous museums around the country. She embarks the second half of her life with her daughter, Hana, who firmly takes her hand on the kinds of adventures one sees in the best children’s books.