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Min Lee is a medical and environmental anthropologist who received her PhD from the Joint UC Berkeley–UCSF Program in Medical Anthropology. Her interdisciplinary research examines conceptions and practices of the “good life” at the intersections of medical anthropology, food and agriculture, environmental studies, disability studies, and migration, with a regional focus on contemporary China. As a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the UC Berkeley Disability Lab during the 2026–27 academic year, she coordinates undergraduate community-engaged research projects in queer disability studies, drawing on her training in ethnographic research, qualitative methods, research ethics, and community engagement. She is also developing a book manuscript and related publications based on her doctoral dissertation, Life Taking Root: New Villagers Seeking Experimental Life Migration in Southwest China. Her research explores how precarious Chinese millennials navigate the social conditions of late socialism by experimenting with everyday practices including permaculture, the study of local flora and ethnomedicinal foods, queer family formation, alternative education, spiritual practice, and ecological restoration in pursuit of ethically and environmentally sustainable forms of life.