Full Name
Roz Lee
Job Title
Senior Director, Amplify Fund
Company
Neighborhood Funders Group
Speaker Bio

Roz Lee (she/her) has dedicated her life to advancing racial, gender, and LGBTQ justice through community organizing, advocacy, political education, and philanthropy. She is the Senior Director of the Amplify Fund at Neighborhood Funders Group, a pooled, place-based racial justice fund. Roz served as the Vice President of Philanthropy at the Equality Fund, a global organization committed to funding feminist futures. She worked at the Ms. Foundation for Women, where she led efforts to support gender and racial justice led by and for women and girls of color, including indigenous and transgender women and girls. As Director of Social Justice Initiatives at the Arcus Foundation, she created innovative global and local philanthropic initiatives at the intersection of race, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity. Roz is the first-ever Professor of Practice at the Center for Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Board President of Lambda Literary, a national organization lifting LGBTQ voices and writing. Roz lives with her spouse and daughter in Harlem.

Roz Lee