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Azure D. Osborne-Lee

Azure is currently a second year master's student in the Women's and Gender Studies program. She graduated from the University of Texas in May 2005 with her BA in English, and completed her BA in Spanish in August 2005 after studying in Cordoba, Argentina. Azure is a Graduate Assistant in the Office of the Dean of Students and an Editor for the Office of Admissions. She also works as a puppeteer with Outreach Productions, a local non-profit organization dedicated to increasing and promoting childhood literacy. Azure currently serves as the historian of the UT Black Graduate Student Association and the Communications Director of the UT Graduate Student Assembly.

Her research interests include black women's hair culture and practices, late 20th century African-American and Chicana literature, and the representation of black women in modern film.

Azure received the University of Texas National Achievement Scholarship from 2002 to 2005, the Chick-fil-A Leadership Scholarship in 2003, and in 2007 she was awarded a David Bruton, Jr. Graduate Fellowship and a Diversity Fellowship through the Graduate School.