Haha, it turns out I went to school with hmlee and recognize her. She confirmed that you found her on her Facebook profile (I'm not friends with her, but we share mutual friends and her profile is pretty open). She claims that two reporters have already contacted her about it, but it doesn't look like she was planted by the Obama campaign. This is one of the reporters who interviewed her:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/president-obama-planted-reddit-ama-question-conspiracy/Haha, that's cool. Yeah, I wasn't totally buying into the conspiracy theory, but it is an interesting set of coincidences. The TL;DR is:
I heard about the AMA a few minutes prior to it going live and couldn’t get my account to login. I knew that if I didn’t get a question submitted in a hurry, it’d probably get lost in the shuffle. So I decided to just create a new account. I typed up my question in notepad prior to copy/pasting it into reddit.
Sounds reasonable.
