Panthea Lee 李佩珊 is a writer, cultural worker, and transdisciplinary facilitator whose work explores what helps people remain alive to one another through rupture and dispossession. Her work investigates how different social forms, rituals, and infrastructures shape the ways people remember, tend to one another, and build shared worlds.

Her perspective has been shaped by two decades of work across more than 30 countries, primarily in the Global South, much of it alongside communities navigating war, displacement, and political transition. Trained as an ethnographer—and certified as a somatic facilitator and social justice mediator—she has accompanied efforts advancing human rights, economic justice, press freedom, deliberative democracy, knowledge equity, and reparative justice. Across these worlds, she is animated by questions of how realities are made (and can be remade), how social forms constrain or nourish human possibility, and what enables people to remain alive to one another. In recent years, this inquiry has expanded into social practice art, exploring how collective rituals and participatory installations might cultivate ways of relating and imagining that contemporary life often struggles to sustain.

Panthea’s writing has appeared in publications including The Nation, In These Times, The Atlantic, ArtReview, and Harper’s Bazaar, and her work has been featured by Al Jazeera, CNN, Fast Company, and WNYC. She has held fellowships at Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and Digital Civil Society Lab, Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination, and the Narrative Initiative. From 2010–23, Panthea co-founded and led Reboot, a social design studio that worked alongside artists, grassroots movements, community organizations, governments, and international agencies to build more participatory and equitable forms of governance. She has lectured at Columbia, Harvard, McGill, The New School, and NYU. She has served as a trustee for The Laundromat Project, People Powered, DemocracyNext, and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).

She lives in Taipei, Taiwan, on the traditional lands of the Ketagalan people.