Staten Island Instructor Myx Lee learned chess as a child from our 142nd Podcast Guest Senior Master Jerald Times. Her mother Olawa Gibson happens to be the Director of Teaching at our close partner New American Academy and our 227th Podcast Guest.
She has been playing chess since she was a child and currently helps facilitate clubs in Brooklyn. In addition to being a chess player, teacher and organizer, she is a professional artist, with an expertise in water and oil based clay work and an emphasis on the human form, making busts, and building armatures.