Carmen J. Lee

As a Heinz Endowments’ communications officer, Carmen J. Lee is responsible for editing h, a full-color magazine that uses narrative writing and documentary-style photography to explain the work of the foundation and its grantees, and to examine issues that are priorities for the Endowments’ mission. Her duties also include editing various print and website reports and publications, and participating in different foundation initiatives, lending her journalism expertise to discussions that affect grantmaking.

Carmen joined the Endowments in 2005 after working 20 years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She reported on municipal government; religion; and education, including nearly 11 years covering the Pittsburgh Public Schools, Pennsylvania’s second-largest school district. During her last two years at the Post-Gazette, she was editor of the newspaper’s weekly East section, which published news and feature stories about Pittsburgh’s eastern suburbs.

Carmen has a bachelor’s and a master’s in journalism, both from Indiana University, and a master's of divinity from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.