Sarah Jaewon Lee

Sarah Jaewon Lee (이재원) works in both formal and informal educational spaces to co-design learning environments with multilingual, immigrant, and refugee communities. Her work highlights how children and youth disrupt the status quo of their current educational contexts, co-creating spaces for students to dream and build more justice-oriented learning environments.

She has conducted and published research that spans across multiple disciplines including science, technology, and literacy. Her work engages learners/community stakeholders who play many different roles: children, youth, in-service and pre-service teachers, museums, librarians, and informal educators. Sarah (Jaewon) is committed to building sustainable partnerships in the greater Seattle community. These partnerships are the crux of Sarah (Jaewon)'s vision for educational equity: enhancing the agency of children from multilingual, marginalized backgrounds to uplift their contributions to knowledge construction and world building.