Email
sjlee25@uw.edu
Office
M209 Miller

Research Interests

Learning Sciences & Human Development
Literacy
Qualitative Research Methods
Science & Mathematics

Sarah Jaewon Lee

Assistant Professor

Sarah Jaewon Lee (이재원) works in both formal and informal educational spaces to co-design learning environments with multilingual, immigrant, and refugee communities. Her work highlights how children and youth disrupt the status quo of their current educational contexts, co-creating spaces for students to dream and build more justice-oriented learning environments.

She has conducted and published research that spans across multiple disciplines including science, technology, and literacy. Her work engages learners/community stakeholders who play many different roles: children, youth, in-service and pre-service teachers, museums, librarians, and informal educators. Sarah (Jaewon) is committed to building sustainable partnerships in the greater Seattle community. These partnerships are the crux of Sarah (Jaewon)'s vision for educational equity: enhancing the agency of children from multilingual, marginalized backgrounds to uplift their contributions to knowledge construction and world building.

Education
Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Diversity, 2024, Vanderbilt University
B.A. in Linguistics, 2015, University of Pennsylvania

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Dr. Sarah Jaewon Lee at the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado
Dr. Sarah Jaewon Lee, assistant professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development, is reimagining how schools and communities support immigrant and multilingual students. Drawing from her experiences growing up in a Korean immigrant household, she designs innovative technology-enhanced learning that centers student identities and voices. Her work blends research, technology and community partnership to create inclusive, joyful spaces where every child can learn, play and thrive.