Joseph Lee

Joseph hails from western North Carolina and graduated with a degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Duke University in 2004.  At Duke, he co-founded The Duke-Durham Hunger Alliance, which collects “left-over” meal points and converts them into food for the regional food bank.  He has worked and volunteered at regional food banks in North Carolina, studied abroad in La Paz, Bolivia, interned with Student Action with Farmworkers migrant health outreach, and taught English in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan.  Joseph is currently part of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Field Epidemiology Certificate Program.

Field placement: Farm to Table

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Policy placement: Migrant Legal Action Program

Washington, D.C.