Ae Kyung Lee has been an active board member of various non-profit organizations for the past two decades. For the past 15 years, she has focused on providing humanitarian aid resources to the people of North Korea, Nepal, Bangladesh and Mexico. She has taken over 30 trips to Rason, Pyongyang and rural provinces in North Korea to monitor humanitarian aid distribution. She lives with her husband, an attorney, with whom she has raised three daughters, in Los Angeles, California.