Ka Ya Lee is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. As a philosopher of education, she studies the issues of educational justice. Her research topic ranges from the aim(s) of education, the informational basis of education policymaking, and universal pre-K to children's rights and moral status. Her paper on justice and universal pre-K received an outstanding graduate student paper award for the American Educational Research Association's 2023 Annual Meeting. As an empirical researcher and a member of the National Ethics Project, she studies ethics education in American higher education, particularly in undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering programs. Ka Ya received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2023 with a dissertation on the Capability Approach and educational measurement. Before starting her doctoral program, Ka Ya was a Philosophy for Children teacher in Tokyo, Japan