Lee-Sean Huang

Teaches at Think Olio

Lee-Sean Huang is the cofounder and creative director of Foossa. As a community-centered designer and social innovation strategist, he has devoted his career to fostering creative civic participation and building movements for the common good. He was previously the founding member of the design practice at Purpose, creative director of Meu Rio and a co-founder of Hepnova Multimedia. He has worked on five continents and has collaborated with organizations including the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, the SEIU, the Dalai Lama Center, the Brazil Foundation, the Packard Foundation, the Grammy Foundation, the Kigali Genocide Memorial, and the Guggenheim Museum. Lee-Sean is a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts MFA Design for Social Innovation and has previously lectured and taught at the New School, New York University, Cornell University, the College of Staten Island, the University of California Los Angeles, and the University of Hawai’i. He also teaches capoeira at the New York Capoeira Center, He is a founding trustee and treasurer of the Awesome Foundation New York and president of the ITP Alumni Association. He holds a bachelor's degree in Government from Harvard and a master's from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU.