Taehee Lee is a first-year graduate student in Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) at the Fletcher School, studying Conflict Resolution and International Security with a focus on North Korean issues. She previously studied Arabic and International Studies at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in South Korea. After graduation, she worked at a NGO in Cambodia, the Korean National Commission for UNESCO (KNCU), and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) as a development practitioner, dealing with a diverse scope of development projects, including education, health, and gender issues in developing countries. In 2021, Ms. Lee was nominated as South Korea’s Youth Representative for the 12th UNESCO Youth Forum. Her experience tutoring North Korean adolescent defectors at the Settlement Support Center for North Korean Refugees (Hanawon) for two years has deepened her interest in human rights and development issues in North Korea, which led to her intense passion for working at HRNK.