Jennifer Lee

Jennifer 8. Lee is a cofounder of WikiPortraits, an initiative to take higher quality photos for Wikipedia that now illustrates more than 1 out of every 100 pageviews globally, and Plympton, a literary studio that has published Margaret Atwood, Min Jin Lee, Carmen Maria Machado and other writers. She also is a film producer with various credits on films that have premiered at Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, and Cannes, including The Search for General Tso (her original!). She is an emoji activist, and serves on the Unicode Emoji Standards and Research Working Group, having helped shepherd over 100 emoji on to digital keyboards worldwide, including the dumpling emoji. Jenny was also the youngest full reporter at The New York Times and the author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, which showed that fortune cookies were originally Japanese. She serves on an eclectic set of nonprofit boards including Museum of Chinese in America and the Asian American Writers Workshop. She graduated from Harvard with a degree in applied mathematics and economics and grew up in Harlem, New York City.