Cody Lee, ALB, was raised in Idaho and spent his youth exploring the mines and ghost towns of the area left over from the mining booms in the 19^th century. He was fascinated by the stories of those who came out West to prospect and mine and learned everything he could about them and their journeys to reach the mines. Cody spent his time outside of school climbing into these old mineshafts and trying to imagine as clearly as possible the people’s lives, from what they wore to how they worked and what they ate. In 2021, he was accepted to Harvard University and completed his bachelor’s degree in government and anthropology. Studying anthropology kindled his old love for the miners of the American West, Canada, and Alaska. In the last year of Cody’s undergraduate degree, he decided to pursue anthropology as a career. He was accepted into a joint bachelor/master’s degree program in anthropology with the area of research surrounding the Klondike Gold Rush. In 2023, Cody created a non-profit to help take his academic interest in mining history into the world. He founded Western Mining Preservation to preserve this history. In 2024, the Board of Directors broadened the scope of their research to include all global human migrations and changed the name to Global Migrations Project to reflect this shift in research and focus. Global Migrations Project exists to tell the stories of the great human migrations around the world through film, written works, photography, ethnographic fieldwork, archaeology, and exploration.