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Biography

MaryJo Benton Lee is an adjunct faculty member in sociology at South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University. She also has taught classes (in qualitative research and academic writing) and done research in the People’s Republic of China for the past 20 years, most recently as a Fulbright U.S. scholar to Yunnan University (2016-17). She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism (with a certificate in East Asian studies) from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in sociology (with a minor in Asian studies) from SDSU. She is the author of two books and the editor of a third, all dealing with race, ethnicity and education. She was the co-creator and coordinator of the Flandreau Indian School-SDSU Success Academy, a nationally recognized college preparatory program for American Indian high school students, from 2000 to 2012. As a principal investigator or co-PI, she has raised more than $1 million in grant funding for diversity and inclusion efforts at SDSU. She is a Certified Clinical Sociologist (C.C.S.) and currently holds an evaluation specialist position at SDSU’s Population Health Evaluation Center.