Miko Lee is a storyteller, activist, teaching artist and educator. She believes in the power of story to amplify voices.
Miko’s career has been in the nonprofit world, first as a theatre actor, director and writer and then as an artistic director and as an arts education leader and executive director.
Miko is the Director of Programs at Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE), she is on the National Advisory Committee of Teaching Artist Guild, the Equity Team of Arts Education Partnership on California’s Special Education + Arts Working Group and the Public Will Committee of CREATE CA.
She is a Lead Producer for APEX Express on KPFA Radio which airs Thursday nights at 7pm. She co-hosts the show with her daughter Jalena using the moniker “Powerleegirls.”
As Co-Executive Director of Teaching Artist Guild, Miko helped launch Our Shared Future, the first national convening of teaching artists. As Executive Director of Youth in Arts for over a decade, Miko helped to create and implement the Marin Arts Education Plan, the Marin Arts Now Community and the Marin County Arts & Culture Master Plan and the Downtown San Rafael Arts District.
Prior to that Miko was the Director of Arts and Public Education at East Bay Center for the Performing Arts where she designed and directed Learning Without Borders, which was a California Arts Council Demonstration Model and a recipient of three consecutive U.S. Department of Education Model Arts awards.
Miko is a daily creator. Check out her Etsy site.
Miko lives and works on the ancestral lands of the Ohlone people. To recognize the sovereignty of the Ohlone people Miko pays the Shuumi Land Tax to the Sororea Te Land Trust.