Kaitlyn Lee is currently a Title VIII Transatlantic Leadership Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, where she researches the Western Balkans. She has published on matters regarding language policy, climate change, economic development, and the Three Seas Initiative among others. She previously interned at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia and worked as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Vidin, Bulgaria. She has lived and traveled extensively in Eastern Europe while completing intensive language courses in Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Kaitlyn has a BA from Centre College where she majored in Classical Studies and minored in French, History, and Linguistics. She has an MA in Linguistic Theory and Typology from the University of Kentucky with a thesis on gendered language perceptions and discourse analysis. She also has a second MA from the Robert F. Byrnes Russian & East European Institute in the Hamilton Lugar School of International Studies at Indiana University where her research focused on Linguistic Nationalism in the Western Balkans.