Meet Reverend Lee
Rev. Eric P. Lee is President/CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles and Chairman/President of the California Christian Leadership Conference.
Reverend Lee is one of Los Angeles’ most vocal and visible civil and human rights activists. From addressing the right of African-American security guards to organize into unions to addressing homophobia, Lee is leading the SCLC into the 21st Century.
A Diversity Task Force member, Lee has been working to reintegrate African-Americans into the hotel and restaurant industries in California. He’s a founding member of the Alliance for Equal Opportunity in Education, a collaboration of organizations in Los Angeles leading the fight against UCLA’s admission policies for Black students. I addition, he is a co-founder of the Knowledge Transfer Summit, an African-American Leadership Forum.
Lee has a B.S. in Political Economies of Industrial Societies from UC Berkeley and a Masters in Pastoral Studies from Azusa Pacific University. He is an affiliate member of the Black Business Association, Recycling Black Dollars, 100 Black Men of Los Angeles, and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
Lee has been married for 17 years and has three children.
