Christina Heakyung Lee received her law degree, Juris Doctor, from King Hall, UC Davis School of Law in 2003, and her university degree, Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1999. Prior to joining Litwin & Associates, Ms. Lee was an associate attorney at an immigration firm in Sacramento and Oakland, California, representing clients in removal proceedings before the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the Ninth Circuit. She also prepared naturalization applications, various employment-based applications, and family-based applications for submission to the United States Department of Homeland Security and United States embassies and consulates. Ms. Lee also serves on the American Immigration Lawyer's Association (AILA) Northern California Board-- where she is the advocacy co-liaison of the chapter's Young Lawyer's Division.

During law school, she worked with the UC Davis Immigration Clinic where she represented clients and coordinated the Clinic's "Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions" program. Ms. Lee also interned at the Juvenile Division of the Public Defender's office in Sacramento where she represented juveniles at their detention hearings. During the summer of 2001, Ms. Lee studied international human rights law at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France and interned at the World Organization Against Torture in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to attending law school, she worked as a community advocate at the Asian Law Caucus, a legal services organization in San Francisco. Ms. Lee is the daughter of Korean immigrants - she is fluent in conversational Korean.