Younji Lee

Hi! I was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in the suburbs outside ofAtlanta. I went to Dartmouth College and majored in Spanish. In college, I directed an open dance troupe called Street Soul and was also a campus DJ. I moved to Ridgewood, Queens after college and worked in public health doing breastfeeding promotion work in New York. During my time in the city, I joined a competitive hip hop dance team called Unique Movement. I returned to Dartmouth and attended Geisel School of Medicine. There I spent my time gathering local LGBTQ+ youth to do fun activities together like bowling, picnicking, and pottery making as part of an Albert Schweitzer fellowship. As chair of Diversity and Inclusion on our student government executive board, I worked with students and faculty to create intentional community programming for minoritized groups at Geisel. I was drawn towards the field of psychiatry because I was struck by the privilege of hearing people’s rich stories and hold space with one another. My interests include public and child/adolescent psychiatry. I continue dancing as a means of grounding myself, and one of my goals is to integrate dance and movement into my practice.