Deanna Lee is the Chief Communications and Digital Strategies Officer for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, effective October 2012.

Previously, she was the Vice President for Communications and Marketing at The New York Public Library, responsible for publicity, marketing, design, multimedia content, and print and digital publications. In 2011, she launched the groundbreaking Biblion: The Boundless Library Apple Hall of Fame iPad education app.

Deanna also served as VP of Communications at the Asia Society, following a 20-year career in broadcast journalism, primarily at ABC News. As overseas producer for Nightline, she worked in the former Yugoslavia, Israel and the Middle East, Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, and Australia. In Africa, she covered famine and the U.S. deployment in Somalia, the election of Nelson Mandela, and AIDS in Uganda. In Asia she reported on global environmental, health, and demographic concerns; and covered the death of Deng Xiaoping, the Hong Kong handover, and the resurgence of Shanghai as a world financial center. Most recently, she was a Senior Producer at ABC's World News with Charles Gibson, formerly with Peter Jennings. Deanna is the recipient of eight Emmy Awards and one duPont-Columbia Award.

A native of Seattle, Washington, Deanna is first-generation Chinese-American. She serves on the Boards of the Asian American Justice Center and the New York Piano Society. An accomplished classical pianist, she still performs and competes internationally. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University in Music, and English and American Literature.

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