Ronald Lee

Ronald Lee (1934 He studied Romani society and culture and worked to foster intercultural dialogue between Roma and Non-Roma.

Early life and education Ronald Lee was born in Montreal, Canada in 1934. Lee's father was a Kalderash musician from Europe who immigrated to Canada, where he married and took his wife's surname of Lee.

From 1989 to 1990, he helped those seeking asylum who had been persecuted as Roma in their former countries. In 1997, he initiated and was one of the founders of Roma Community and Advocacy Centre (based in Toronto) and the Western Canadian Romani Alliance, in Vancouver, in 1998.

In 2014, Ronald Lee was honoured by Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, with an Honorary Doctorate of Laws.

Learn Romani: Das-duma Rromanes, University Of Hertfordshire Press, 2005

Romani Dictionary: Kalderash-English, Magoria Books, 2010.