Michael Justin Lee is the President and Founder of the university admissions consultancy, The Ivy Dream LLC, and is a member of the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants.He is also the President and Founder of Angels in Absentia, a charity dedicated to fighting global child trafficking.An alumnus of Brown University and New York University, as well as a Chartered Financial Analyst and CFA Level 3 examination grader, he was an international institutional investor before serving as the nation’s first Financial Markets Expert-in-Residence in the U.S. Department of Labor. He then entered the professoriate, teaching at Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, where he was a 3 time winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award and was elected to the University Senate.He is also proudly a part of the new wave of Asian-American artists. Major entertainment industry organizations that have accepted him for membership include:• The Producers Guild of America• The Society of Composers and Lyricists• The Dramatists Guild of America• The Songwriters Guild of America• The Writers Guild of America• The Country Music Association• The Academy of Country Music• The Gospel Music AssociationAs a music artist, he is the composer of rock operas. His Concept EPs about Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, Joan of Arc, Snow White, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, Mulan, and Romeo and Juliet are all streaming on Spotify, iTunes, Pandora and on over 150 other platforms worldwide. He is also the founder of the Country music group, Homeland Hope. Their albums, “Christmas Peace” and “Life is Tough (But I’m a Whole Lot Tougher)” have also been released onto those streaming sites.As a filmmaker, he works primarily in the genre of “edu-tainment.” His most recent movie, released in July of 2022 is a screwball comedy entitled “Mere Oblivion.” All 5 of his movies are available for purchase on the major Transactional Video-on-Demand platforms, in over 80 countries across six continents.Previous cinematic works of his have been screened at Court Métrage Festival de Cannes and have been recipient of a Motion Picture Opportunity Fund grant from the Virginia Film Office. His comedic stage play, “Grandmothers,” was produced Off-Broadway in 2013, the same year that he was honored at the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ Outstanding Book Awards for his first book, “The Chinese Way to Wealth and Prosperity” (McGraw-Hill, 2012).