# Lisa Yun Lee

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A Museum For Public Housing

After 15 years of planning and fundraising, leaders broke ground on the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago. Reset checks in with the organization’s executive director Lisa Yun Lee and the vice chair of its board Crystal Palmer.

Monsters! with Claire Dederer

These are terrible times—an escalating cold war with China, a proxy war in Europe, racialized police violence unchecked, environmental collapse on full display, fragile and often anemic democratic institutions on life support, religious authoritarianism on the rise, women’s bodily integrity under s…

Civic Love with Lisa Yun Lee and JR Rymut

In this episode of The Detour, we're thinking about civic love: love for society, expressed through a commitment to the common good. This phrase, "civic love," comes from the people at the National Public Housing Museum, including our first guest, Lisa Yun Lee. We'll also hear from JR Rymut, of Ent…

New National Public Housing Museum offers stories of hope, amid struggle

The muted complexes and concrete towers that paint the image of America’s public housing tell a deeper story. It’s a story of segregation, of communities trying to survive along the margins, and of money and power shaping neighborhoods. In Detroit — as in many places — it’s a layered story, one th…

What Does It Mean to Love Your Country Today?

For almost every year of my life, I’ve spent July 4 at what my father calls our ancestral home: a few acres of old farmland bordering a small lake in Wisconsin. In one of our community traditions, neighbors gather on a lawn alongside the lake to listen to a reading of the Declaration of Independenc…

What Does It Mean to Love Your Country Today?

For almost every year of my life, I’ve spent July 4 at what my father calls our ancestral home: a few acres of old farmland bordering a small lake in Wisconsin. In one of our community traditions, neighbors gather on a lawn alongside the lake to listen to a reading of the Declaration of Independenc…

Episode 81: Who Gets to Stay: Land, Memory, and Belonging in a Changing City

In this episode of "Gathering Ground," host Mary Morten sits down with four brilliant artists and activists to explore the intersection of art and social change. Amanda Williams, Tonika Lewis Johnson, Lisa Yun Lee, and Shannon Downey share how their personal histories, creative practices, and colla…

Lisa Yun Lee, Executive Director at National Public Housing Museum

What if a museum’s job isn’t simply to preserve history, but to help us imagine a different future? Lisa Yun Lee has spent her career exploring what cultural institutions can make possible when they understand themselves as civic spaces. As Executive Director of the National Public Housing Museum …