Lee Hyeon-seo is an activist, author and is also best known for her book "The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story" which has been translated into 22 languages and is a New York Times Bestseller. Lee is an activist who had escaped from North Korea and had later led her family to freedom from the country. Hyenseo has a degree in English and Chinese from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and she also campaigns for North Korean human rights and refugee issues. Lee has appeared on TED talk in February 2013, which has been viewed over 16-million times, The topic of the talk was, "My escape from North Korea." At the age of 17, Lee had fled North Korea in 1997, and had went to China where she hid and lived under many names before she was able to reach South Korea. Lee has a hard time trusting Kim Jong Un, she hopes that there will be a unification between the two countries; South Korea and North Korea, and she said she not only hopes this, but the 25 million North Koreans who are living there. Lee had helped her family cross the border seven years ago, even though her mom who is 60-something had lost her seven brothers and sisters and mourns over their death every night. The unification is what upsets Lee truly. She wishes she can send a postcard to North Korea and her message would say, "I missed you so much. I missed you every night and cried almost every day for you. And thank you so much that you survived through the famine and that you see the bright future, right now, on the Korean Peninsula. And that we all can meet the real freedom that you deserve." Lee has wrote for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, LSE Big Ideas blog, and the South Korean Ministry of Unification. Lee who is now 38 years old, lives in Seoul which is one of thousands of North Korean defectors who are living in the South. Lee has dreams such as that she wants to work at the UN or the NGO that advocates for the human rights of North Koreans, and she vouches for the rights that they can be treated as political refugees. Lee was one of the eight Korean refugee that had met with President Trump at the White House, and had requested him if he can help those who were in North Korea defector, who were hiding and suffering in China to get their freedom. Lee had gotten married to Brian Gleason. Lee's father was a military officer and her mother was a high-ranking member of a state-owned company. She also had no idea of how the North Korean's were suffering in North Korea and had planned her escape, when she had seen the free world from Chinese television. Lee has also been nominated for Goodreads Choice Awards Best Memoir & Autobiography.