Meet our Founder, Yubeen Lee

Read part of her story:

"I set out to create more of these good days—as many as I could—through Reflections. Before I knew it, I was helping residents craft and narrate their stories twice a week, eventually designing anthologies and compiling their stories. But we created much more than a book of inked stories together—we created understanding. Affection. What’s more, we sculpted stories that the page will never forget.

But the senior center wasn’t the only place filled with poetic stories. Soon, I noticed poetry following me to my dorm room as I converse with my roommate, attempting to understand the difference between enunciations. Poetry slipped into the blue math notebook right as the intense scribbling began. Quite simply, as each Reflections story emerged, my passion for poetry—and, more broadly, for immortalizing stories that would otherwise fade with time or tragedy—deepened. Watching Mary write about the loss of her son page by page, or helping George navigate and process the end of his baseball coaching career and the ensuing confusion, my appreciation for writing as a healing tool only swelled.

My grandfather’s once stories now slip away, lost in the haze of dementia, fading like ink on a weathered page. Yet through my writing, I hope to capture his presence, immortalizing his spirit and memories into my words, preserving the fragments of his life."