Grace Lee

Grace Lee

Washington , United States

gracelee1326@gmail.com

Grace Lee is a Fellow at SPRING.

Glacier Peak High School

A junior at Glacier Peak High School in Snohomish, WA, Grace is deeply interested in studying the policies abd legislative decisions surrounding us. She is a policy debater and speaker in many speech events in her debate team. Grace immerses herself in reading the news, writing, and exploring new things in her free time.

Publications

From Classroom To Polling Booth: an Analysis of Mandatory Civic Education in Schools on Youth Political Participation

In the United States, civic education has been at an all-time low. Teaching civics in schools is invaluable because the youth are much more malleable and easily influenced, making it possible to instill the value of civic engagement into students. Political participation is important in a democracy as it ensures that the government is in regulation by the people. This brief includes and analyzes a brief synopsis of the patterns of civic education in the primary regions of the United States.

By Grace Lee

November 1, 2025

Recommendations for Transparency in Arms Transfers

Arms transfers are directly linked to human rights. In conflict, transferred weapons and arms split apart families, equipping nations with exponentially larger capacity for destruction and annihilation. Given the nature of arms, access to information about arms transfers is often asymmetric between the public, government stakeholders, state-owned enterprises, and private companies; a trade-off exists between the benefits of making information public and transparent with the downsides of revealing sensitive national security items or trade secrets. In this brief, we review the legal landscape of access to information laws, highlighting applicability to arms transfers to analyze how transparent/accessible information and data regarding arms transfers are in the status quo. We stand in support of the Human Rights Council’s attention on arms transfers, believing that more is needed to involve NGOs, close international loopholes, and track responsible arms usage with technology to uphold human rights for all.

By Grace Lee

June 1, 2025

De-Dollarization and Global Economic Stability

In the words of the former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, “who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.” The phrase implies that economic wealth and financial resources have a pervasive impact on decision making, social structure, and the distribution of power. For centuries, world leaders have been competing for global dominance in currency. Hence, it is critical to address the issues in today’s monetary system. Let us shine the light upon a global issue that is heavily devastating countries and marginalized communities worldwide.

By Grace Lee

April 15, 2025

Recommendations To Encourage Digital Education and Ensure Youth Protection

An alarming number of households have unreliable access or none at all to an Internet connection and the technology needed to attain digital education. Over 9 million students14—around 12% of the total student population15—lack access to the Internet entirely. 1 in 4 students have unreliable Internet networks. This also extends to teachers, as around 400,000 lack access to digital education.16 ...

By Grace Lee

February 28, 2024

Recommendations To Combat Child Exploitation In Social Media

Social media has exploded in usage amongst children. 50% of parents state that their child has access to some type of social media, with 32% of parents reporting that their children aged 7 to 9 have access to social media. Three quarters of parents have shared the content of their children online.1 ...

By Grace Lee

December 13, 2023

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