Bill Lee

Bill Lee has worked and taught in community practice
for many years. Experience taught him early on that
problems were rooted in unequal power differentials,
poverty, racism and other structural issues. Working with
groups engaged in changing the world became a lot more
important to him than attempting to help people adjust to
unjust or inhumane situations and policies.

While he often opines that community practice by itself
cannot be expected to cure these issues, he also believes
community is an absolutely crucial site for beginning and
sustaining action for positive change. It is where our private
and public lives merge, where we come together to talk,
argue, identify problems and solutions and begin to take
action.

Community practice became Bill's life work and life journey.
As a consequence, he has managed to acquire a lot of
experiences, read a lot and obtain a variety of academic
bells and whistles. More importantly, he has met great
numbers of great people in many parts of the world,
particularly First People, who have shared his passion for
social justice and have provided him with their wisdom and
stories of their experiences as they have struggled toward
social justice.

This has impelled Bill to write books, to provide a framework
that makes community organizing accessible and exciting to
others.

Bill also finds that he respects and loves dogs. He rather
thinks this is probably because they are communal animals.

Current Favourite Quote:
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed
away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of
thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to
know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."
� John Donne