Albert R. Lee is Associate Professor of Music and Associate Dean for Student Life and Community Engagement at the Yale University School of Music. With degrees from the University of Connecticut, The Juilliard School, and Florida State University, he has made a career as a classical vocalist in opera, oratorio, recital, and liturgical music. Dr. Lee is a featured soloist on a recording of works by composer, George Walker on Albany Records singing musical settings of the Walt Whitman poem “When lilacs last in dooryard bloomed,” a poem written as an elegy to Abraham Lincoln after his assassination. In his previous post at the University of Nevada, Reno, he was a sought-after guest lecturer for courses in the English Department, the School of the Arts, the College of Education, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, the Black Cultural Cooperative, cultural graduation ceremonies, and at universities around the country. Dr. Lee was a featured speaker in UNR’s TEDx event with a TedTalk sharing his thoughts on the recent National Anthem controversy titled “When I Sing the Anthem.” Dr. Lee draws inspiration from the literary works of Langston Hughes as well as his unique artistic, spiritual, and personal journey from childhood to his current life as an international performer, scholar, and arts administrator.