Asian American Journalist Association’s VOICES Fellowship Program Work: Asian Americans and ADHD Diagnosis

The VOICES Fellowship is a highly competitive undergraduate and post-graduate program to train journalists for over 6 months and present a body of work at the AAJA annual conference. Each group in the cohort present issues that are closely relevant to the Asian American community at large.

For the full story: https://voices.aaja.org/stories/washington-d-c-2023/for-asian-americans-an-adhd-diagnosis-follows-years-of-being-misunderstood/

Part reporting & all visual images by Macy Castañeda Lee.

The Daily Californian: “Psych In Education for Non-Profit Series” an Opinion Series Focusing on Psychology & its Intersectionality

Photo & Written Work for The Daily Californian (Berkeley’s News), an Opinion series on Psychology research & education, with the help of WSJ & New York Times Opinion Writers & Independent Research through interviews. The focus is on psychology related topics in the Philippines and in the US.

The Dirty Capitalization of Self Care & Wellness (with photojournalist, Yehyun Kim)

https://dailycal.org/2023/06/01/the-dirty-capitalization-of-self-care-and-wellness

Normative Psychology Today is Based on Shame (Guided by Asra Nomani, WSJ & NYT Opinion)

https://www.dailycal.org/2022/09/22/normative-psychology-in-education-today-is-based-on-shame

There is So Much More Needed for Neurodivergent People Outside of Therapy (Independent Research in the Philippines & in the University of California)

https://dailycal.org/2022/10/24/neurodivergent

Leader Paralysis in Climate Action: Featuring Delikado, the Filipino Environmental Documentary Film (Independent Research in the Philippines)

https://dailycal.org/2022/11/17/climate-2

Pre-colonial spirituality manifests in self and social psychology

https://www.dailycal.org/2023/01/26/spirituality-manifests-in-self-and-social-psychology

Our generation is complicit to other people's oppression (Featuring Tara Pixley of Authority Collective, Women Photograph, WSJ, etc.)

https://dailycal.org/2023/02/15/our-generation-is-complicit-to-other-peoples-oppression

Producer/Coordinator/Editor & Photographer for Gen Z & Therapy Article: by Talang Dalisay Writers & Young Star Life

https://philstarlife.com/self/209076-gen-z-therapy

Event Photography Work for the Center for Fiction, Brooklyn

https://centerforfiction.org/videos/tom-piazza-on-the-auburn-conference-with-david-gates/

https://centerforfiction.org/videos/the-art-of-the-short-story-magogodi-oamphela-makhene-on-innards-with-dawnie-walton/

https://centerforfiction.org/videos/the-center-for-fiction-and-bellevue-literary-review-present-abraham-verghese-on-the-covenant-of-water/

https://centerforfiction.org/videos/joanna-biggs-presents-a-life-of-ones-own-with-lauren-oyler-and-christine-smallwood/

https://centerforfiction.org/videos/sarah-cypher-on-the-skin-and-its-girl-with-zaina-arafat/

https://centerforfiction.org/videos/a-reading-with-the-center-for-fiction-susan-kamil-2022-2023-emerging-writer-fellows/


Non-Profit Work/Personal Narratives for Talang Dalisay & My State of Mind (Writing & Editing)

Written Work for my organizations, Talang Dalisay & My State of Mind:

https://www.talangdalisay.org/blog/courage-rises-by-macy-lee

https://www.talangdalisay.org/blog/dear-reader-please-keep-going-typhoon-ulysses-my-experience-with-homelessness-recovering-from-anxiety-attacks

https://mystateofmindwellness.org/mind-blog/xxncxj8j2ylwh19j2negl5s0kq4oul

https://mystateofmindwellness.org/mind-blog/happy-world-autism-awareness-day-a-guide-on-how-to-understand-autistic-people-better-by-macy-lee

https://mystateofmindwellness.org/mind-blog/mental-health-in-lgbtq-margaret-miller

https://mystateofmindwellness.org/mind-blog/youth-in-revolt-margaret-ronda

(Below are my old blog posts for Talang Dalisay, with some all the way back to 2017. Some of these blog posts are project overviews back when I was running the organization with just around 15 people. Today, we have grown over to 800!)

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2020/03/03/mental-health-in-the-lgbtq-queer-community-with-margaret-miller-my-state-of-mind-a2-by-macy-lee/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/thank-you-the-end-of-a-decade-the-start-of-a-new-things-learned-things-to-look-forward-to-by-macy-lee/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2019/11/08/what-it-means-to-be-a-youth-in-revolt-with-uc-davis-professor-margaret-ronda-my-state-of-mind-a1/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/resisting-against-standards-a-mid-year-end-update-ft-the-new-team-international-growth-seeing-new-horizons-by-margaret-lee/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/its-2019-talang-dalisays-2019-highlight-reel-by-margaret-lee/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/to-all-of-the-supermoms-out-there-by-margaret-lee/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2018/07/03/netflixs-13-reasons-why-truthbetold-mental-health-campaign-project/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/stayawareph-project-highlights/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2018/05/01/do-it-for-the-enigmatic-inimitable-fat-lady-purpose-is-why-you-should-keep-going/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/yami-kawaii-japans-mental-health-scene-in-the-streets-of-harajuku/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/new-year-fresh-start-endless-opportunity-continue-to-fight-the-stigma-welcome-letter-for-2018/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2017/12/20/all-the-lob-matchesformarawi-a-tennis-charity-tournament/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/sprout-speak-out-reach-out-a-mental-health-mission-for-marawi/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2017/10/30/up-psychology-societys-mental-health-fair-headspace-at-up-diliman/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2017/10/18/the-national-youth-congress-on-mental-health-2017-committee-of-mental-health-in-schools/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2017/10/15/priiti-mae-bandril-teacher-advocate-bill-author-of-the-sped-bill-of-2017/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2017/10/07/filipino-tv-personalities-on-mental-health-distorted-correct-views-clash-online/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2017/09/21/parliamentarians-against-martial-law-neveragain-notomartiallaw/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2017/09/11/the-importance-of-mental-healthdisability-teaching-in-the-philippines-how-awareness-can-help-progress-a-third-world-country-in-the-21st-century-pmc-2017-privilege-speech/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2017/08/05/medias-abuse-to-a-persons-mental-well-being/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/humans-of-the-saints-and-angels-life-skills-training-center/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/anas-story/

https://talangdalisay.wordpress.com/2017/07/28/first-blog-post/