Nicole Lee is the founding Executive Director of Urban Peace Movement, a grass-roots racial justice organization in Oakland that builds youth leadership to transform the social conditions that drive community violence and mass incarceration. She is a fourth-generation Oakland resident of Chinese American heritage and has spent three decades leading critical social justice work through coalition-building and youth organizing campaigns. Nicole was named in Ebony’s Power 100 List as a "Community Crusader," was inducted into Bay Area Hip Hop Archives Class of 2023, and received the O2 Initiatives Sabbatical Award. At Mesa, Nicole worked on her memoir and devoted time to visioning about the future work of her organization.
