Dr. Lydia Bean
Lydia Bean is a social scientist and nonprofit leader based in Texas. She is a Fellow in the Political Reform program at New America. Lydia holds a Ph.D in sociology at Harvard University and a bachelors at Austin College. She is the author of The Politics of Evangelical Identity (Princeton University Press, 2014) and previously taught at Baylor University. In 2014, she founded Faith in Texas, a multiracial nonprofit that brings faith communities together to work for justice and fairness in North Texas. In 2020, she ran for the Texas House of Representatives in Tarrant County. Lydia lives in Arlington, Texas with her husband, public artist Norman Lee, and son, Micah.