George “Conscious” Lee is a Black educator, keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and digital storyteller with more than eight years of teaching experience. His work connects history, power, and popular culture. He holds a bachelor’s degree in African and African American studies and two master’s degrees, in adult and higher education and in human relations, all from the University of Oklahoma.

He has taught college students at both predominantly white institutions and HBCUs, including as a university professor and as an adjunct at Widener University. In 2019 he served as assistant director of debate and coached a college championship-winning team. He has also consulted for the City of Littleton, Colorado, and authored curriculum for Fire in Little Africa. Before the classroom, he was a national champion policy debater at OU and part of the first African American duo to earn the number-one seed at the National Debate Tournament, where he made history by bringing hip-hop into competitive argument.

Today he carries that classroom online through Education Is Elevation, an independent, community-funded media platform on Substack, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, with no corporate or institutional backing. His standard is simple: Research over MeSearch. You can’t change what you don’t know needs changing, so his work starts with consciousness and ends with tools.

More than 5 million people follow his work. He is a two-time NAACP Image Award nominee, an International Webby nominee, a recipient of YouTube’s Content Creator Choice Award, and a YouTube Black Voices Fund grantee. He serves on the Content Advisory Board for Fanbase and has partnered with YouTube, TikTok, BET, and the NAACP. His work has been featured in Rolling Stone, Forbes, The New York Times, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Essence, and Business Insider.

Based in Texas with deep roots in Oklahoma, Lee travels nationwide to deliver keynotes, workshops, and youth outreach programs for universities, K-12 schools, debate programs, conferences, and community organizations. He is especially passionate about helping students build the confidence to research, question, and speak up.

Raised in Bryan, Texas, Lee spends his off-camera time at trail rides in rural Texas, on the road, and with his family.