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Harry Lee

Executive DirectorAbaarso Network

Biography

Harry Lee is the Executive Director of Abaarso Network, a nonprofit system of schools in Somaliland, East Africa. Abaarso Network students became the first in their country in more than 30 years to matriculate to US universities and were featured on 60 Minutes, in the New York Times, and at the Clinton Global Initiative. Harry helped to build the coed boarding school of Abaarso, as well as Barwaaqo University for Women, and founded Kaabe, a scaling system of Montessori schools in Somaliland. Harry earned a Master’s in Education from Harvard University and Bachelor’s Degrees in Foreign Affairs and Psychology from the University of Virginia.