Seung Lee is a Fellow in the Transportation and Land-Use program of the NYU Marron Institute. A former Silicon Valley reporter and Bay Area public transit communications official, he has spent the past five years publishing mass transit history focused on California, South Korea, and Japan on his blog, S(ubstack)-Bahn. In addition, he has written histories in other countries, such as France, Ukraine, Australia, and Colombia. He is interested in global historic cases of sustained public infrastructure investment, effects from privatization of mass transit agencies, and the role of labor unions and outside activists in shaping mass transit. Seung was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in Los Angeles. He holds a bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley.