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Valeria Lynch Lee (born 1942 in Halifax County, North Carolina) is an African American philanthropist and an advocate for public media in North Carolina. Lee was a co-founder of one of the first black public radio stations in the nation and has served as program director, manager, and board member for numerous organizations aimed at improving educational and socio-economic conditions for North Carolinians. She was inducted into the North Carolina Women's Hall of Fame in 2009.

Early life

Valeria Lynch was born in 1942^[1] near Hollister in Halifax County, North Carolina.^[2] She grew up on the family farm^[3] and then attended North Carolina Central University, earning a bachelor's degree in business education. Lynch went on to earn a master's in education at North Carolina State University.^[4] After completing her schooling, Lynch married Jim Lee^[5] and moved to Turkey for two years. The experience was a formative event for Lee and the first time she had not experienced overt racism.^[3]

Career

In 1968, the couple returned to North Carolina^[3] and Lee began her career as a school counselor and librarian.^[2] This was a pivotal time in the Civil Rights Movement and Lee helped implement integration policies and Head Start Programs.^[3] In 1973, Lee and her husband Jim, founded a non-profit corporation, Sound and Profit United, Inc. to apply for an FCC broadcasting license. When the license was granted, the couple worked with volunteers to create the format for a radio station. By 1976, public radio station WVSP (Voices serving people) was on the air as one of the few black public radio stations. The station broadcast blues, jazz, and Latino music, as well as interviews with national figures to Warren County from a water tower erected on the Lynch family’s farm.^[5] The station became part of the activist media network in and around Raleigh during the Black Power movement^[6] and broadcast for twelve years.^[5] In 1980, Lee was appointed by Governor Jim Hunt as one of the four board trustees of the Center for Public Television at the University of North Carolina.^[7] She also earned a second master's degree in media from Ohio University's^[4] School of Radio and TV, after being selected to participate with two other women in a pilot program in 1980 which provided media management training to minorities.^[8] Before the station went off the air, the Smithsonian Institution exhibited the history of WVSP 90.9FM in Washington, D.C.^[5] That exhibit has become a traveling exhibition, which was still touring in 2010.^[9]

Lee's next endeavor was as a program officer for the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation,^[2] selecting projects for funding which either improved or provided benefits for communities in North Carolina or preserved the cultural heritage in the state.^[10] She became a featured speaker at many events as well as a moderator for educational programs on issues of interest to the black community.^[11]^[12] From 2000-2008, she served as the first President of the Golden Leaf Foundation, ^[13] as chair of the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center and as a director of BB&T. In 2009, Lee became the CEO of Applied Behavioral Concepts for Families, a philanthropic organization which distributes the funds from the national tobacco settlement toward economic development projects in North Carolina. That same year, she was named a member of the Board of Directors of BB&T,^[14] serving until her retirement in 2012.^[1] She was elected to the North Carolina Women's Hall of Fame in 2009.^[14]^[15]

References

1. ^¹{{cite web | last=Lee | first=Valeria Lynch | title=Executive Profile: Valeria Lynch Lee| website=Bloomberg.com | date=4 July 2016 | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/Research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=4985891&privcapId=6087828&previousCapId=3534993&previousTitle=Golden%20LEAF%20Foundation | accessdate=4 July 2016}}
2. ^¹²{{cite news|title=Lee to keynote Emancipation Association program|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/profile/susun-wilkinson/clipnumber/59084/|accessdate=12 July 2016|publisher=Winston-Salem Chronicle|date=December 29, 1988|location=Winston-Salem, North Carolina|via = Newspaperarchive.com}} {{open access}}
3. ^¹²³{{cite web|title=Valeria Lee to Speak at NCCU's Legacy Lecture Series|url=http://www.nccu.edu/news/index.cfm?id=739D96F1-C295-3D7D-E36809E9FE1B46A6|publisher=North Carolina Central University|accessdate=12 July 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522060713/http://www.nccu.edu/news/index.cfm?id=739D96F1-C295-3D7D-E36809E9FE1B46A6|archivedate=22 May 2010|location=Durham, North Carolina|date=January 18, 2005}}
4. ^¹{{cite web | author=admin | title=Lee Elected to BB&T Corporate Board | website=Black Business Ink| date=1 December 2010 | url=http://www.blackbusinessink.com/business-briefs/valeria-lee-elected-to-bbt-corporate-board/ | accessdate=4 July 2016}}
5. ^¹²³{{cite web|last1=Johnson|first1=Sherman|title=WVSP 90.9FM 1973-1985|date=2010|pages=38-39|url=https://nchumanities.org/sites/default/files/WVSP%20Page.pdf|accessdate=12 July 2016|publisher=North Carolina Humanities Council|location=Charlotte, North Carolina}}
6. ^{{cite news|last1=Davis|first1=Joshua Clark|title=Museum of Durham History: New project shines light on Triangle’s activist media history|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/durham-news/dn-opinion/article10296848.html|accessdate=12 July 2016|publisher=The News & Observer|date=March 7, 2014|location=Raleigh, North Carolina}}
7. ^{{cite news|last1=Dorman|first1=Angie|title=UNC-TV's 'Festival '80' successful in funds drive|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5866378/the_daily_tar_heel/|accessdate=12 July 2016|publisher=The Daily Tar Heel|date=March 20, 1980|location=Chapel Hill, North Carolina|page=3|via = Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}
8. ^{{cite journal|editor1-last=Jones|editor1-first=Bill|title=Trims and Glitches|journal=The Independent Film & Video Monthly|date=1980|volume=4|issue=1|page=23|url=https://archive.org/stream/independent04foun#page/23/mode/1up/search/valeria|accessdate=12 July 2016|publisher=Foundation for Independent Video and Film, Inc.|location=New York, New York}}
9. ^{{cite news|last1=Shaw|first1=Emily|title=Smithsonian exhibit comes to Warrenton|url=http://homeinhenderson.com/2010/04/29/news/smithsonian-exhibit-comes-to-warrenton/|accessdate=12 July 2016|publisher=Home in Henderson|date=April 29, 2010|location=Henderson, North Carolina}}
10. ^{{cite news|title=Bradshaw receives foundation grant to create exhibit on local black history|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/profile/susun-wilkinson/clipnumber/59110/|accessdate=12 July 2016|publisher=Winston-Salem Chronicle|date=June 5, 1986|location=Winston-Salem, North Carolina|page=2|via = Newspaperarchive.com}} {{open access}}
11. ^{{cite news|title=Cleon Thompson to address 'Black Issues'|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/profile/susun-wilkinson/clipnumber/59103/|accessdate=12 July 2016|publisher=Winston-Salem Chronicle|date=February 18, 1988|location=Winston-Salem, North Carolina|page=26|via = Newspaperarchive.com}} {{open access}}
12. ^{{cite news|title=Black Issues Forum to explore issues of health care access|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/profile/susun-wilkinson/clipnumber/59082/|accessdate=12 July 2016|publisher=Winston-Salem Chronicle|date=September 14, 1989|location=Winston-Salem, North Carolina|page=33|via = Newspaperarchive.com}} {{open access}}
13. ^{{cite web | title=Valeria Lee | website=Foundation For Health Leadership & Innovation | url=http://ncfahp.org/valeria-lee.aspx | accessdate=4 July 2016}}
14. ^¹{{cite news|last1=Craver|first1=Richard|title=BB&T elects Valeria Lee to board of directors|url=http://www.journalnow.com/business/bb-t-elects-valeria-lee-to-board-of-directors/article_f3f8bc72-76dc-5067-ba7f-e379c53242d9.html|accessdate=12 July 2016|publisher=Winston-Salem Journal|date=December 16, 2010|location=Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}
15. ^{{cite web|title=Valeria Lynch Lee|url=http://www.ncwomensconference.com/content/2011-nc-womens-hall-fame|publisher=NC Women's Conference|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917041540/http://www.ncwomensconference.com/content/2011-nc-womens-hall-fame#mdb|archivedate=September 17, 2011|accessdate=3 July 2015|location=Charlotte, North Carolina|date=May 18, 2011}}