In her senior year, Lee joined the Walnut Hill branch of the National Arts Learning Collaborative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing, implementing, and evaluating arts-education programs in urban school districts. Lee volunteered to go weekly to the predominantly African-American Marshall Elementary School in Boston to start a student government program there. Lee’s work at the Marshall school has lowered barriers of understanding between international students and urban students, Asian and African-American students, female and male adolescents, and independent and public school students.

 

According to Walnut Hill Assistant Dean Hope Ricciardi, Lee has “permanently strengthened” relations between all students and she is widely respected as a student leader across grades. In Lee’s own words, "Winning the Princeton Prize has just made me realize how much harder I need to work at improving race relations. One little thing that I’ve realized is that one student can make changes, and that these changes might affect the whole world's race relations. Just by doing little things, I feel very happy.”