Jasmine Lee is both a Patient Care Assistant with Northeast Arc and an artist for Asian American women. She graduated from Tufts University with a double major in American Studies and Community Health and double minor in Chinese and Asian American Studies. Her education is grounded by her own lived experiences as a survivor in Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up with a single mother and brother in the Charlestown projects and Boston Chinatown. She has devoted her life to tackling issues in her own community. As a Visual Arts major at Boston Arts Academy, she was involved in Asian American issues through the arts, academics and the Asian American Club. As the Vice-President of Tufts Asian American Alliance, she addressed Asian American issues on and off campus through education, student organizing, arts and events.
Her political activism has expanded through her work in different Asian American organizations at the local and national level such as Project ADAPT, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance and Asian American Women’s Political Initiative. She is passionate about combatting Asian American women’s issues, domestic violence, health disparities and racism through visual and performing arts, health research and community organizing.
Her art is a space that is in a state of crisis and fighting (literally) blood, sweat and tears to bring even Asian American women struggle in conversations and art in particular. A voice that has been betrayed and used by those in her own community. A voice that has been on the verge of death countlessly. A voice that is completely invisible in a larger system of white supremacy and a system that feeds this cycle. Despite it all, it is a voice that has continued to survive in a system that has traumatized, tortured and killed many other Asian American women. It’s a classy way of fighting back, interrupting, resisting, responding during times where I did not have the opportunity or have been silenced.she can voice violence, pain, struggle, betrayal, love, strength and perseverance in the Asian American Women community.
