Lee-Sean Huang

Lee-Sean Huang currently works as the Director of Design Content and Learning at AIGA, the oldest and largest professional association for design in the United States. He is also the cofounder and creative director of Foossa, a design and innovation consultancy. He teaches design, social innovation, and futures thinking at the Parsons School of Design, New York University, and the School of Visual Arts.

Lee-Sean’s career in designing participation and building movements began when he was a student at Harvard, where he studied Government and engaged as a community organizer and human rights activist. He later honed his campaigning and organizing skills running online-centered campaigns for Avaaz and Human Rights Watch. Prior to co-founding Foossa, Lee-Sean was the founding member of the design team at Purpose, a public-benefit consultancy that builds movements and new power models to tackle the world’s biggest problems. He has written for publications including GOOD Magazine, Fast Company, and the Huffington Post.

Lee-Sean was born in Taiwan and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. After graduating with a degree in Government from Harvard, Lee-Sean worked as an ALT in Nakatsu-shi, Oita-ken from 2003 to 2006. He has been based in New York City since JET, and has also completed a masters in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU. He began serving as webmaster of JETAANY in 2006, and joined the JETAANY non-profit board in 2018. He also serves as a board member of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation. In his spare time, Lee-Sean enjoys photography, training capoeira, a Brazilian martial art disguised in dance, keeping up with his Nihongo, and playing the ukulele.