Fong Lee

Fong Lee is a Saint-Paul-based artist and WAAC’s first Storytelling Fellow. Fong spent nearly 18 years inside Minnesota State prisons; he is a celebrated poet, with publications through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and Asian American Writers Workshop, a beloved painter, and a published photographer. Fong is a restorative justice practitioner and the community engagement and partnership coordinator with The Legal Revolution.

Fong and his family immigrated to the U.S. as Hmong refugees when Fong was a child, after his family was displaced from their home in Laos. His experience and expertise with incarceration and displacement enable him to make WAAC all the more dynamic, including strengthening the collaborations between inside and outside artistic partners.