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Elizabeth Chun Hye (Liz) Lee

Elizabeth Chun Hye (Liz) LEE serves as United Women in Faith’s Director for Mobilization and Advocacy, strategizing and developing programs and structures to support members and women to new levels of leadership and advocacy within the organization, church and society. She provides strategic support to the Just Energy for All and Interrupting the School to Prison Pipeline campaigns. Liz most recently served as the organization’s Executive for Economic and Environmental Justice and Climate Justice Lead and is a contributing author in Climate Justice: A Call to Hope and Action (2022). Liz represents UWFaith at the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility and the US Climate Action Network, where she also serves on its board.
 
Prior to United Women in Faith, Liz served as the Director for Young Adult Mission Service at Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church, developing over 100 global and national partnerships. Liz worked at the World Council of Churches’ United Nations Liaison Office, focused on human rights, gender justice, migration, Indigenous People’s rights, and climate displacement. Prior that that, she worked as a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs (New York) and a Williams in China Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Asian Human Rights Commission (Hong Kong). Liz has served on boards and executive teams, including Nexus Korean American UMC Network, Global Youth Connection, and Ecumenical Women at the United Nations. Liz is active at HA:N UMC and serves as its chairperson of its Church and
Society committee. Liz was recognized by Sojourners as one of "10 Christian Women Shaping
the Church in 2020."

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