Lee Harris Ready for Change

Lee Harris, 32, teaches at the University of Memphis and is the founding chairman of the Shelby County Young Democrats. He is also one of the first Memphis-area members of the United Campus Workers, a labor union for employees at the University of Memphis and other public Tennessee schools. Harris was born in Memphis. He is the son of a retired schoolteacher and an air-conditioning and heating repairman. He is a product of the Memphis City School, Morehouse College, and Yale Law School.