Deanna Lee is the Vice President of Communications and Marketing at The New York Public Library, appointed in April 2009. She is responsible for promoting the Library and its mission, activities, collections and milestones through publicity, marketing, system-wide publications, advertising, graphics, new- and multi-media.

Ms. Lee came to The New York Public Library from the Asia Society, where she oversaw media relations and marketing across all program areas—policy, business, education, arts, and culture—extending the worldwide reach and profile of Asia Society. Under her leadership media recognition of the Society doubled, with a 688 percent increase in broadcast coverage, in two years. She also developed new media content partnerships with The Far Eastern Economic Review, WashingtonPost.com, Project Syndicate, the Huffington Post and YouTube.

Ms. Lee joined Asia Society after a career in broadcast 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. Ms. Lee has received eight Emmy Awards and one duPont-Columbia Award.

A native of Seattle, Washington, Ms. Lee is first-generation Chinese-American. She serves on the National Advisory Council of the Asian American Justice Center, the Board of Directors of the Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. and the board of 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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