Bright (Dokyeong) Lee is an undergraduate fellow at the USC Korean Studies Institute, pursuing a double major in Cognitive Science and Political Science. He previously worked as a research assistant at the R Street Institute in Washington, DC, where he focused on U.S. budget reform research and article development. He also helped organize Global Dialogue, an interparliamentary conference for members of the German, Indian, and Australian parliaments at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. In December 2024, he contributed an article titled "When Old Wounds Reopen: Martial Law, Impeachment, and South Korea's Challenge Ahead" to Global Policy following South Korea's martial law crisis.