Kyoung Lee is the Chief Human Resources Officer for RiseBoro Community Partnership. She has strategic human capital and organizational development experience, leading high-performing HR teams in private, public and nonprofit sectors. Kyoung is passionate about coaching, developing and leveling up talent to help organizations achieve business results. She started her career as a human capital management consultant serving Fortune 500 companies, and then joined one of her key clients and worked as an internal organizational development consultant at Pfizer.

Kyoung made a career shift to work in the education sector by joining Teach For America where she helped launch a new learning and development team. She then worked on school reform at DC Public Schools in both their human capital and academic departments, and at Achievement First, a public school charter management organization, as VP of Talent Operations. Most recently, she was the VP of People & Culture at SEO, a nonprofit focused on closing the opportunity gap, leading key change initiatives and overseeing their talent programs across the full employee lifecycle.

Kyoung graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in Public Policy and from Harvard Kennedy School with an MPP. In her spare time, she is out and about with her twin girls, trying something new, and building fun memories.