Lee Bitsóí, EdD (Navajo)

42 Lee Bitsóí, EdD (Navajo)Board Position

Board Secretary, 2012-2013; Board Member, 2011–2013

Committee Membership

Finance, Native American Affairs

Institutional Affiliation

Diversity Program Director
Harvard University, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Website

http://www.leebitsoi.com/

Field

Genetics
Specialization: Ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI)

Biography

Lee Bitsóí, EdD, currently serves as the diversity program director in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, where directs a recruitment plan for underrepresented minority students in genomic sciences at the undergraduate and postdoc levels.  In addition, he concurrently serves as an Education Strategy Consultant for the Institute for Higher
Education Policy in Washington, DC.

Dr. Bitsóí has served as a research assistant professor in the Department of Human Science at Georgetown University, and director of minority training in bioinformatics & genomics at Harvard University in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. He has also worked at Dartmouth College and San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico. Admirably, Dr. Bitsóí has devoted his
career to enhancing opportunities for underrepresented minority students to become scientists, science educators and scientifically-informed community members.

Dr. Bitsóí earned a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of New Mexico (1995), where he was initiated into the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. He holds a Master of Education degree from Harvard University (1998) where he was initiated into another prestigious honor society—Phi Delta Kappa. He earned a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania (2007) where his research focused on the conditions that encourage and discourage American Indians from pursuing higher education, a subject upon which he has published.

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