Sierra Lee (she/her) is a mixed-race, second-generation Korean American born and raised in the Bay Area. Her commitment to the immigrant justice movement is fueled by her own family’s story of separation during the Korean War and global struggles for decolonization and prison abolition.

Sierra joined Pangea in May 2024. Prior to joining the team, she spent over a decade as a nonprofit fundraiser in the fields of public and creative media, documentary filmmaking, and the performing arts, building resources for new creative work and diverse talent. Her work has always centered self-determination and belonging for BIPOC communities—a throughline that persists in her role at Pangea. She was most recently the associate director of development at the nonprofit-social enterprise Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology (BAYCAT) where she led a team that raised funds for BIPOC youth filmmaking and early-career workforce development programs. 

Her career has also included development roles at leading cultural institutions including The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) and Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and as an intern at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA). At CAAM, Sierra curated and produced events in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and at the Sundance Film Festival featuring industry leaders like Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians, Wicked) and Sandra Oh (Killing Eve, The Sympathizer), among others. She also contributed to multi-year development, production, and educational campaigns for the award-winning public television documentaries The Chinese Exclusion Act and Asian Americans, and associate produced Wayne Wang’s 2019 independent film Coming Home Again.

Sierra is a proud film school dropout and holds a B.A. in English and Film Studies from the University of California, Berkeley (‘12) where she was an American Cultures Chancellor's Fellow. She is an herbal medicine practitioner in-training with Ancestral Arts in Oakland.