Kennedy Lee

Kennedy Lee is research associate and program manager with the Keystone Defense Initiative and Center on Europe and Eurasia at Hudson Institute. She assists Senior Fellow Rebeccah L. Heinrichs with the Keystone Defense Initiative, including on the Keystone Defense Initiative Newsletter, as well as Senior Fellows Peter Rough and Luke Coffey with a focus on Europe and Eurasia.

Ms. Lee is a former fellow at the Forum for American Leadership, where she helped write briefs and policy analysis on questions of national security, foreign policy, and American global leadership for elected officials and candidates for office. She also worked as the special assistant to the director of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, focusing on the intersection of technology and US foreign policy. Ms. Lee has taught various courses for the Tikvah Online Academy and Tikvah’s Solomon Fellowship. 

She holds a BA in political science and Russian language and civilization from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received the J. Thomas Shaw Award for Undergrad Excellence in Russian. Ms. Lee is an alumna of the Russian Flagship Program, studying in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Almaty, Kazakhstan, and completed MA coursework in the comparative politics of Eurasia at the Higher School of Economics. 

She speaks Russian.