India Lee
India Pierce Lee is the executive vice president and chief strategy officer of Tri-C (Cuyahoga Community College).
She works with leadership to establish accountability measures and help fulfill mission-conscious strategic goals and initiatives, focusing on advancing student success, improving the employee experience and deepening Tri-C’s reach in the community.
She previously served as a senior vice president at the Cleveland Foundation. She led the foundation’s grantmaking team, working with the board, staff, and community leaders to define Greater Cleveland’s critical needs and leverage resources to help meet them. Pierce Lee joined the foundation in 2006 as Program Director for Neighborhoods, Housing and Community Development. She worked with Cleveland’s community development corporations and neighborhood intermediary organizations, and oversaw the Greater University Circle Initiative, a multi-institutional neighborhood revitalization partnership, including Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, and the City of Cleveland.
Prior to joining the Cleveland Foundation, Pierce Lee served as Senior Vice President of Programs at Neighborhood Progress Inc. She served as Senior Program Director at Northeast Ohio LISC and Director of the City of Cleveland’s Empowerment Zone.
India holds a Bachelor of Science in management from Cleveland’s Dyke College and is a graduate of the Louis Stokes Fellowship in Community Development from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, where she obtained a Master of Science in social administration and The Distinquished Alumini Award in 2014.
In 2009, Pierce Lee completed the prestigious Loeb Fellowship from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where she studied neighborhood revitalization, with a special interest in sustainability.
In May 2017, India obtained a Master of Arts in Psychology with a specialization in Diversity Management from Cleveland State University and is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Graduate Studies in October 2019.