Michelle Ye Hee Lee (born June 13, 1988) is an American journalist who is the Tokyo bureau chief of The Washington Post as of 2020.

She and her mother immigrated to the United States in 1995, initially settling in Warren, Ohio before moving to Guam, where she spent much of her childhood.

For her investigation into Arizona's failures in tracking and monitoring homeless sex offenders, she was named a finalist for the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists.

[13] Lee is currently a member of the Investigative Reporters and Editors and lectured students at a local high school through Press Pass Mentors program.

[14] In 2017, she was elected as the President of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), which is a membership nonprofit responsible for advancing diversity in newsrooms, and ensuring fair and accurate coverage of communities of color.