Lee, Dana Su, 1965-

“I identify with being part of the AAPI community, and our family has adopted Las Vegas as our town, again doing what we can to make impact because we feel that this town has really blessed us with so much opportunity. It’s our joy to be able to give back.”

As a third generation Chinese American, Dana Lee reflects on the realities her grandparents had to face in China during the 1930s and how her parents eventually were able to move to America and settle in New Jersey. She speaks on the glamourous life of being an arts major at Brown and how she navigated university with a more artistic lens compared to her finance major colleagues. She speaks of her passions for art history and community involvement, as well as provides relatable anecdotes on the culture shock she felt moving to Las Vegas from the East Coast with her husband.

In this interview, Dana Lee discusses themes of Asian identity, her experience during the rise of Anti-Asian sentiment during COVID, raising her kids in Las Vegas and the early days of keeping the production alive at Eureka Casino with her husband. Dana Lee and her husband continue to give back to the Las Vegas community through acts of service in the community, education, and the arts.