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Gay Lee, LCSW-R

Gay Lee is a licensed social worker, actress, and politician based in Newburgh, NY. She is a Democratic candidate for Newburgh city council’s Ward 1.

Early life

Gay Lee was born in Brooklyn on _.

Early career

Education

Gay Lee earned a Bachelor of Science in Social Work from City University of New York in 1991. She earned a Master of Social Work (MSW) in Psychiatric Social Work from Smith College School for Social Work in 1995. She is a doctoral candidate (all but dissertation) at Capella University. She has more than twenty years of clinical training.

Counseling and social work

Lee is a New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker with reimbursement privileges. Her clinical practice focuses on counseling, substance abuse, child custody, and immigration.

Nonprofit management and teaching

Gay Lee is a lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work.

Politics

Gay Lee became a resident of Newburgh in 2005, and formerly served on the Newburgh city council from January 2012 to January 2016. Her 2021 campaign platform for city council focuses on _.

Acting

Appeared in the feature films Charlie Mantle and Just Like Joe, and in the HBO documentary film The Newburgh Sting.

Personal life

Gay Lee is mother two children and grandmother to _ children.

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