PhD, 2022 Jihye Lee is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Foundation at CUNY/Hunter College. Her dissertation focused on the strategies and impacts of financial aid packages on public institutions of higher education. While at the McBee Institute, she served as a graduate research assistant for Rob Toutkoushian. Lee’s research interests revolve around higher education policies, particularly in the areas of financial aid, finance in higher education, and educational access and success. In additional to her PhD, Lee earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science and east Asian studies and her Master of Science in education policy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.