Lisa Yun Lee, Executive Director at National Public Housing Museum

Arts Unscripted with Monica Holt · Sep 3, 2026 · 45m

What if a museum's job isn't simply to preserve history, but to help us imagine a different future?

Lisa Yun Lee has spent her career exploring what cultural institutions can make possible when they understand themselves as civic spaces. As Executive Director of the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, she leads an institution created by public housing residents to preserve their own histories, challenge dominant narratives about public housing, and bring arts, culture, and public policy together in the fight for housing as a human right.

In this episode, Lisa traces the winding path…