Lee Bynum
Board Member (He/Him)
Lee Bynum joined Minnesota Opera as its inaugural Vice President of Impact in October 2020. Previously, he served as associate director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; assistant director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University; founding artistic director of the Harmony Theatre Company, and visiting scholar at Caritas Francis Hsu College in Hong Kong. In addition, he has been active with the boards of The Dream Unfinished Orchestra, TakeRoot Justice, and Black Feminist Project. A historian of race and ethnicity in classical music, concert dance, and theatre, Bynum received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia University.