Suzanne Lee worked in the Boston Public Schools for 35 years, first as a teacher and later as a principal of the Baldwin School in Brighton and the Josiah Quincy Elementary School in Chinatown. Under her leadership, Baldwin became a nationwide model for school improvement and Quincy was named one of the Best 100 Elementary Schools in Massachusetts during her tenure.
She has been a dedicated community advocate and leader helping to organize immigrant mothers to launch the first Chinese Parents Association; helping to establish the first bilingual training programs in Massachusetts for workers, and collaborating with The Boston Foundation, to address persistent poverty in the city. She was one of the lead founders and a longtime chair of the Chinese Progressive Association in Boston, a founding member of the Massachusetts Asian American Educators Association, and a member of the Massachusetts Advisory Council on Bilingual Education and the English Language Learners Task Force for the Boston Public Schools.
Suzanne was the first in her family to attend college, earning a scholarship to Brandeis University and later recruited into education, earning her Master’s degree at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.
