In 2012, Lee built her own house on wheels and started the nation's first tiny house community in Washington DC to model how tiny houses could be used as urban infill. Her tiny house work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including NPR, Washington Post, Atlantic Cities, Dwell, Inhabitat, Al Jazeera, Architectural Record, and CNN.
At the heart of her personal philosophy, Lee believes that a sense of home and belonging are essential to developing healthy communities and individuals.
With a background in community development, education, and geography, Lee helps citizens and communities to envision and enact housing and land stewardship models that are driven and owned by them.
She has mapped land tenure and natural resources throughout Latin America with citizen groups, managed geospatial projects for the US government, and educated cities and citizens on tiny house development and zoning. She is currently building a data platform for zoning related to tiny houses.