Since 2002, Lee Mitgang has led the Foundation's Editorial Services unit which is responsible for enhancing the quality and credibility of all Wallace editorial products and publications.  He originally joined the Foundation in 2000 as Director of Communications after serving as a consultant to the Foundation's Educational Leadership Team during its startup phase.  Previously, he was Assistant Director of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Teachers College, Columbia University.  From 1992-97, he was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where he was lead researcher and writer of several education-related policy reports, including School Choice (1992), and Building Community: A New Future for Architecture Education and Practice (1996).  For twenty years, Mitgang was a reporter and editor at The Associated Press and United Press International, covering business, urban and political news, and education. He was a contributing editor of Architectural Record from 1998-2003, and has written extensively about the state of architectural education.  His most recent book, Big Bird and Beyond: The New Media and The Markle Foundation, was published in September 2000, by Fordham University Press.

He holds a master’s degree in History of Political Thought from the London School of Economics, a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan, and was an urban journalism fellow at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.