Briana Rose Lee attended the MacDuffie School and Cathedral High School in her hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts. She then attended Carnegie Mellon University as a Directing major but had the opportunity to attend The ScholarShip and spent six months circumnavigating the globe aboard a ship studying the arts and culture in each of the twelve countries visited. After the incredible voyage, and earning a Certificate in Global Leadership and Intercultural Communication, Briana transferred and graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts and a minor in Communications from the University of Minnesota. She is a life-long sister of Kappa Alpha Theta.

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During college, Briana completed six theater internships at The Children’s Theater and The Guthrie focused on stage management and directing. Once Briana graduated, she began working full-time in the film industry and is now a member of IATSE Local 490 as a production coordinator. She was elected political coordinator of her union. Briana has worked on several feature-length and many short films as well as commercials and television series. Briana joined Actors Equity Association (AEA) in 2021 and is proud to be a dual union member in the entertainment industry.

 

Briana also has done brand representation work since she was sixteen and won “Brand Ambassador of the Month” from Oxford Marketing in August 2018 for her work on their summer activations. Briana was a tour manager for Mazda Ride and Drives for four years and has done countless other automotive tours and events nationally. Briana has been a mainstay staff member for the Twin Cities Film Fest running their social media, hosting filmmaker Q and A's and assisting with red carpet events.

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During the pandemic, Briana got actively involved in politics and became a national delegate for Bernie Sanders, a Greenpeace volunteer, a Legal Observer for the ACLU, and worked as an organizer for Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s re-election. Briana graduated from National Democratic Training Committee’s Staff Academy in March 2021 from their Digital Cohort; and graduated from the Minnesota DFL's 8 month Wellstone Academy in 2023. Briana was unanimously elected Chair of Minneapolis DFL from 2022-2022.  After two election cycles as an organizer on  Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's team, she was promoted to Operations Director in Jan 2024. She is staying on during the off-cycle year part-time.

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Briana is the Vice Chair for Stonewall DFL, the CD5 Representative for the State Nominations Committee, and the CD5 Representative for the State Executive Committee. She enjoys Chairing conventions and large meetings in the party and has become quite the parliamentary procedure nerd. She even owns a pink gavel :)