Dr. Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Old Dominion University. Her area of expertise includes early childhood education in Korea, parent involvement, diagnostic reading, multicultural  education, parent involvement, and emergent reading. She was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. After she completed her Bachelor’s degree, she moved to the United States of America to pursue her graduate education and academic career.

Dr. Lee earned the Master’s degree from Chicago State University in 1990 and the Ph. D. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1993 in the area of Literacy and Early Childhood Education.

She has taught undergraduate and graduate literacy education and early childhood education courses for 17 years in the Unites States of America. Prior to teach at Old Dominion University, she has taught at several colleges in the Republic of Korea and at Murray State University in Kentucky as well as young children in Chicago.

Dr. Lee has published over 50 articles in national and international professional journals, book reviews, and book chapters  in the field of reading, early childhood education, and multicultural education and has made over 100 presentations at international, national, regional, state, and local conferences. Currently, Dr. Lee serves as the president of the APAHO (Asian Pacific American Heritage Organization) and the TKAA (Tidewater Korean American Association). 

She  serves on the publication committee for ACEI (Association for Childhood Education International). She is a chair of the Research Interest Forum on Emerging Issues of Early Childhood Education in Korea and Co-Chair of the Internationaln Outreach Committee for ACEI. She has also served the the Second Language Literacy and Learning Commission and Internaltional Literacy Grant Committee at IRA (International Reading Association) and World Organization of Early Childhood Education (OMEP) as newsletter editor and as a board member.