Elissa Lee

Dr. Elissa Lee, OTD, most recently served as Director and Senior Advisor of Community Engagement for California Governor's Office of Service and Community Engagement. In this role, she created and led the Neighbor-to-Neighbor and Meet 6 Neighbors initiatives, which build social connection in Californian neighborhoods to improve community health and disaster resilience.

Dr. Lee has worked on several physical and mental health initiatives across sectors: running awareness and action health campaigns for Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation and Clinton Foundation; consulting for the Obama Foundation on trust and pluralism; designing chronic care and homeless prevention programs in research and health administration; and writing an Oxford University Press book and several articles on health disparities in BIPOC, LGBTQ+, immigrant and disabled communities. She received her doctorate at USC and her bachelor's from UC Berkeley.