Bryan C. Lee Jr is an architect, artist, writer, and design justice advocate working out of New Orleans. Lee is the Founder and Director of Colloqate Design, a nonprofit design practice focused on expanding the field toward Design Justice through organizing, advocacy, and design. He established the contemporary Design Justice Movement and was a founder of both the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter University. He is currently a design critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. As an educator, he produced and led two award-winning high school architecture and design programs. He has served as the 2025–26 President-elect and the current South region Vice President for the National Organization of Minority Architects. Over the years, he has received many awards and fellowships — most recently, the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices Award in 2019 and the 2021 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award.