Kennedy Lee is a student in the Comparative Politics of Eurasia Master’s program at the Russian Higher School of Economics and holds a BA in Russian and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her undergraduate studies, Kennedy was involved with the AEI Initiative on Faith and Public Life, Passages Israel, and the Tikvah Fund. Kennedy is an Evangelical United Methodist and is interested in the church and religious pluralism in the post-Soviet space. She is from Fennimore, Wisconsin.