Helen Lee

Helen is an author and speaker, along her regular day job as the director of strategic initiatives at InterVarsity Press. She has also written award-winning articles and posts for organizations and blogs such as Christianity Today, Sojourners, Jesus Creed, Christ and Pop Culture, and COV: The Covenant Companion. Helen’s 1996 article on the “Silent Exodus” in the Asian American church is still widely regarded as the seminal piece reporting this trend; she followed up to that article 18 years later with her cover story on Asian American Christianity in CT. She also speaks regularly at conferences and events, such as the IF:Gathering, MOMcon, Triennial, Urbana, and Missio Alliance's Awakenings, Verge Network, and the Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing, among others. Her first picture book will release in May 2025 with IVP Kids, and her first middle-grade novel is scheduled to release in May 2026 with Holiday House. Helen also has interests in entrepreneurship and co-founded the Best Christian Workplaces with Al Lopus in 2002 to help Christian organizations improve the quality of their human resources management. She is one of the original four members of Redbud Writers Guild and also co-founded Ink Creative Collective. Helen loves coming up with new ideas and seeing those ideas come to life.

Helen has a B.A. in bioethics from Williams College, an M.A. from Wheaton College (Communications/Theology), and an MBA from Babson College with a focus on entrepreneurship. She is married to talented classical pianist Brian Lee, a professor of music at Moody Bible Institute and has three active, amazing teenage and young adult sons, plus one spirited mini-Bernedoodle.