Panthea Lee (李佩珊) is a cultural worker and transdisciplinary facilitator committed to structural justice and collective liberation. Rooted in Daoist, feminist, and reparative practices, she weaves alliances across community groups, artists, grassroots movements, governments, and international agencies to advance dignity, equity, and healing. Her work lives at the intersection of the spiritual and the political, grounded in the truth that we belong to each other—and that collective flourishing depends on both relational repair and structural transformation.
Her perspective has been shaped by work in over 30 countries, primarily across the Global South, accompanying and building coalitions fighting for human rights, economic justice, participatory democracy, knowledge equity, press freedom, and collective healing. Trained in somatic facilitation and social justice mediation, she grounds this work in embodied and relational practice.
Panthea has held fellowships at Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity and Digital Civil Society Lab; Arizona State University’s Center for Science & Imagination; and the Narrative Initiative’s Changemakers Authors Program. From 2010–23, she co-founded and led Reboot, a social design studio shaping systems towards structural justice. In 2025, she expanded this work through social practice, presenting projects that weave memory, ritual, and community organizing at the Matsu Biennial and the São Paulo Bienal opening week.
Her writing has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, In These Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and her work has been featured by Al Jazeera, CNN, Fast Company, and WNYC. Panthea has lectured at Columbia, Harvard, McGill, The New School, NYU, and the School of Visual Arts, and her work is taught in social design and political science curricula. She has also served as a trustee for The Laundromat Project, People Powered, DemocracyNext, and Royal Society of Arts.
Panthea lives in Taipei, Taiwan, on the traditional lands of the Ketagalan people.
李佩珊(Panthea Lee)是一位文化工作者與跨域引導者,致力於結構正義與集體解放。她以道家、女性主義與修復性實踐為根基,串連社群團體、藝術家、草根運動、政府與國際機構,共同推動尊嚴、公平與療癒。她的工作行走於精神與政治的交會處,立基於一個信念:我們彼此相屬,而集體的繁盛有賴於關係的修復與結構的轉化。
她的視角來自三十餘國的實踐經驗,主要在全球南方,陪伴並建立跨域聯盟,共同爭取人權、經濟正義、參與式民主、知識平權、新聞自由與集體療癒。她同時受過身體化引導與社會正義調解的專業訓練,讓這些工作得以根植於身體與關係的實踐。
她曾獲得 史丹佛大學比較種族與民族研究中心(Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity) 與 數位公民社會實驗室(Digital Civil Society Lab) 的研究員,亞利桑那州立大學科學與想像力中心(Center for Science & Imagination) 的研究員,以及 Narrative Initiative「改變者作者計畫」 成員。2010 至 2023 年間,她共同創辦並領導社會設計工作室 Reboot,推動跨領域與跨地域的結構正義。2025 年,她的社會實踐逐漸展開,透過編織記憶、儀式與社群組織的作品,於 馬祖藝術島以及 聖保羅藝術雙年展 開幕週展出。
她的文字曾發表於《The Nation》、《The Atlantic》、《In These Times》、《Harper’s Bazaar》與《Stanford Social Innovation Review》,其作品亦受到 半島電視台、CNN、《Fast Company》 與 WNYC 的專題報導。她曾在哥倫比亞大學、哈佛大學、麥基爾大學、新學院、紐約大學及視覺藝術學院授課,其工作亦被納入社會設計與政治學課程之中。她也曾擔任 The Laundromat Project、People Powered、DemocracyNext 與 英國皇家藝術學會(Royal Society of Arts) 的董事。
目前,她居住於台灣台北,凱達格蘭族的傳統領域。
Learning & Lineages
I give thanks to my teachers. First and foremost, 李明穎 and 黃德珍, who have taught me countless lessons in resilience. And Troels Steenholdt Heiredal, who shows me every day how to find beauty in the everyday.
I am trained in somatic facilitation (Resilience Toolkit Level 1) under the guidance of Nkem Ndefo and Arrowyn Ambrose. While I have studied with many other teachers, practicing with Staci Haines, Erika Lyla, Brandon Sturdivant, and Johannes Weidenmueller have been particularly meaningful. I am a certified mediator through the Social Justice Mediation Institute, led by Leah Wing and Deepika Marya, and have deepened my practice through conflict transformation communities facilitated by Elli Nagai-Rothe and Sheherazade Jafari.
Workshops on documentary poetics with Kimberly Alidio and Cathy Park Hong have deepened my understanding of how we wield testimony for collective witnessing and becoming. I’m grateful to Cathy Li for helping me reclaim my mother tongue, and the worlds it makes possible.
My path through Daoist teachings has been shaped by the translations and writings of Ken Liu, Li-Young Lee, Yun Wang, Ursula K Le Guin, Derek Lin, Ellen M Chen, and Marc Mullinax, and by the embodied teachings of Lin Ming-Hui and Mimi Kuo-Deemer.
Conversations and playtime with Farzana Khan, Gabriella Gómez-Mont, Candy Chang, Nour Batyne, and Camille Sapara Barton continue to offer endless delight and inspiration.
Honours
The seeds for the work I’m currently tending were planted through fellowships with Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination, and Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and Digital Civil Society Lab. I’m currently working on a book; early ideas were nurtured through a fellowship with the Unicorn Authors Club and Narrative Initiative, and coaching from the incredible Minal Hajratwala.
In a past life, my social design work was honoured by Fast Company, Core77, and UNICEF, and has been featured in textbooks including Designing the Invisible (Bloomsbury) and Design for Social Innovation (Routledge).
Above all, I offer deep gratitude to every person who has entrusted me with their stories—always with such generosity, often in the face of devastating circumstances. A few of them are below. I am still learning where and how best to honour these stories, especially those from kin living at the edges of empire, and to help realize the dreams they carry.