Education
Lee was educated at Holy Innocents' High School and Ngee Ann Polytechnic, before earning a Bachelor's degree from in 2001.
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Career
She was defeated by PAP candidate Mr Charles Chong in the 2015 General Election and lost her seat for Punggol East SMC. Outside politics, Lee has worked as a Business Development Executive at Clapper (S) Pte Ltd (2000–2003), a Financial Consultant for American International Assurance (2003–2005), a Broker with CIMB-GK Securities (2005–2006), a Recruitment Manager for Prudential Assurance (2006–2008) and a Senior Trainer at Great Eastern Life Assurance (2008–2013). Lee confirmed that she resigned from her job as a financial trainer to serve as a full-time MP for Punggol East. Lee first contested the Punggol East seat at the 2011 general election, where she was defeated by the candidate of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), Michael Palmer.
After the election, Palmer was made the Speaker of Parliament. Palmer resigned as Speaker and as MP for Punggol East in December 2012 after it emerged that he had been having an extra-marital affair. A by-election was called to fill the seat in January 2013.
The Workers' Party selected Lee to contest the seat again at the by-election. Desmond Lim of the SDA also contested the seat again at the by-election, along with a fourth candidate, Kenneth Jeyaretnam of the Reform Party. Since 2014, she has been the Organising Secretary on the party's Executive Council.
Prior to her election to parliament, she also served as a legislative assistant to Pritam Singh, one of the Workers' Party's MPs in the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency. In the 2015 General Election, Lee lost her seat to PAP's veteran six-term MP Charles Chong by the closest margin in this election, with Lee having 48% of the votes. However, she declined to take up the Non-Constituency MP (NCMP) position.
Subsequently, Associate Professor Daniel Goh replaced her as NCMP.
Achievements
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There he won a silver medal in the men's Triple jump F11 event, a bronze medal in the men's Long jump F11 event and finished seventh in the men's Javelin throw F11 event. There he won a gold medal in the men's Triple jump F11 event, a gold medal in the men's Long jump F11 event and finished fourth in the men's Javelin throw F11 event. At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China, he won gold medals in the men's Long jump F11 and Triple jump F11 events. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he won silver in the Triple jump and bronze in the Long jump.
Politics
Political career
Lee was the Workers' Party's Deputy Treasurer from 2008 to 2011, the party's Youth Wing President from 2011 to 2012 and the Deputy Webmaster from 2012 to 2014.
Membership
A member of the opposition Workers' Party, she has been a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the single-member constituency of Punggol East from January 2013 until August 2015. Following the election, Lee told the media that her immediate priority as Member of Parliament would be to ensure the smooth handover of the Town Council from the ruling PAP. She was sworn in as a Member of Parliament on 4 February 2013.
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Political Party
Workers' Party of Singapore