JAE JUNE LEE

Jae June Lee is an Affiliate Scholar of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality. He supports the Center’s work by providing research and expertise on technology, government modernization and digitization efforts, and privacy and confidentiality.  

Jae June’s research explores how emerging technologies shape democratic governance in the digital age. His recent projects examine the ethical, political, and societal dimension of privacy-enhancing technologies in government statistical systems. For example, he is currently examining policies and practices related to the use of differential privacy in decennial census data and their implications for congressional redistricting and democratic representation. He is a PhD student in Cornell University’s Information Science department and is advised by Daniel Susser and Helen Nissenbaum. He also serves as an appointed member of the American Statistical Association’s Privacy and Confidentiality Committee, and he is a Census Quality Reinforcement Fellow at the National Conference on Citizenship.

Previously, Jae June was the Senior Policy Analyst at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, where he developed and led the center’s Census & Data Justice program. In his role, Jae June directed research focused on improving census accuracy, equity in federal data collection, and disclosure avoidance methodologies. Earlier in his career, Jae June also designed and implemented data collection efforts in the refugee camp of Calais, France, and served as a Demetrios G. Papademetrious Young Scholar at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.

Jae June graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Kenyon College, where he received the Virgil C. Aldrich Prize for excellence in philosophy and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He also completed a Certificate in Data Science from Georgetown University and studied politics and philosophy at Hertford College, University of Oxford.