Chantelle Lee was a 2022-2023 Tow Journalism Fellow. She joined FRONTLINE after graduating from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism's Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism in May 2022. While at Columbia, she co-reported a story about how people incarcerated in New York prisons in the 1980s created peer-led education programs to de-stigmatize HIV/AIDS, which won the university’s Fred M. Hechinger Journalism Education Award.

Previously, Lee was a national desk reporter at The Globe and Mail and a breaking news reporter at The Press Democrat, covering stories ranging from wildfires to healthcare. She also interned at NPR Weekend Edition, producing several segments about how the Trump administration’s immigration policies were affecting migrant families.

Lee holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with honors in 2019. During her undergraduate career, she worked at The Daily Californian, the student newspaper and paper of record for the city of Berkeley, as a reporter, news editor, opinion editor and eventually managing editor.