Jennifer Lee

Policy Director

Jennifer Lee is the Policy Director for Asian Americans Advancing-Justice Atlanta. She previously served at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, where she researched and advocated for state policies that provide Georgians greater opportunity to complete a higher education credential across race, ethnicity and family income. She helped inform and pass legislation that created the state’s first need-based College Completion Grants and extended the time students can receive HOPE Scholarships.

Jennifer also served as director of the Texas Kids Count Project at Every Texan (formerly the Center for Public Policy Priorities) in Austin, Texas. She graduated from Wellesley College and holds a master’s in public affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.