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Mikal Amin Lee
Mikal Amin Lee is a cultivator of culture. The co-curator of the highly popular Word. Sound. Power., the springtime hip hop/spoken word performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). A scholar and essayist of almost two decades, he is an associate editor of the journal Word Beats & Life, and a community editor for Equity and Excellence in Education at the University of Umass Amherst. He has taught, lectured and written about hip hop pedagogy and anthropology at the African Diaspora Conference in Brazil, the Shoko Festival in Zimbabwe and the Golden Era Conference at Indiana University, and at the University of Dortmund. He has published in the peer-review journal Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies and the blog The Counter Balance, through Intellect and a chapter in the Hip-Hop Pedagogy Handbook (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).
Contact: Brooklyn Academy of Music, 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA.