YENNIE LEE
Social Impact Campaign Lead
Yennie Lee brings over ten years of experience in philanthropy, design, social innovation, and storytelling for social change. She has worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, IDEO.org, and Participant Media on a range of issues—from improving student success in U.S. education, designing new approaches to social impact measurement, solving market failures in the menstrual hygiene space, and building marketing campaigns that galvanize film audiences to take action for social change.
Most recently, at Participant Media, Yennie led social impact campaigns for both narrative and documentary films, including Dark Waters (Focus Features), American Utopia (HBO), and Final Account (Focus Features). She was awarded the Shorty Social Good Awards' "Best in Entertainment" category for her work on the “Fight Forever Chemicals Campaign” in 2020 and the Bronze Cannes Lions for Good Health and Wellbeing Sustainable Development Goals in 2021.
Yennie holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. As Social Impact Campaign Lead, Yennie is responsible for building The Right to Read's partnerships and programming to share the film with parents, teachers, and education leaders across the U.S.
