About Diana Lee

Diana Lee is a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism who researches the creation and circulation of mediated counter-narratives in response to racial microaggressions. Through multimedia visual culture and storytelling resistance practices, she explores how these networked participatory cultures aim to collectively process, speak back to, or educate about these everyday manifestations of racism and their layered, cumulative effects. She is particularly interested in the potential healing and empowering impact of participating in these resistance practices for those who frequently navigate microaggressions in their everyday lives, and how these kinds of engagement can be utilized and fostered for education in other contexts of learning.

Diana has worked on several mixed-methods research projects in education, psychology, mental health, immigration, youth culture, media literacy, and communication. Before doctoral studies, she worked in education research and evaluation with the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) and the National Writing Project (NWP), and in after school programming and development at Oakland Asian Students Educational Services (OASES).

Diana holds a B.A. in Sociology from University of California, Berkeley, an Ed.M. in Learning and Teaching from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a M.A. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University.