Jennifer 8. Lee

Jennifer 8. Lee
Lí Kēng
Born
Jennifer Lee

(1976-03-15) March 15, 1976 (age 48)
New York City, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (BA)
OccupationJournalist
Notable creditThe New York Times
Websitewww.jennifer8lee.com

Jennifer 8. Lee (Chinese name: 李競;[1] pinyin: Lǐ Jìng; POJ: Lí Kēng; born March 15, 1976) is an American journalist who previously worked for The New York Times.[2] She is the co-founder and president of the literary studio Plympton[3] and a producer of The Search for General Tso, which premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival.[4]

Lee is a vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee,[5] which is responsible for making recommendations relating to emoji to the Unicode Technical Committee. Inspired by the universality of the dumpling across cultures and cuisines (e.g., jiaozi in China, ravioli in Italy, pierogi in Poland, empanadas in various Latin American countries), she helped to make the dumpling emoji a candidate.[6][7] She also co-authored the proposal for a hijab emoji.[8]

  1. ^ Lee, Jennifer 8. (March 17, 2008). "Someone added my Chinese name to my Wikipedia entry in simplified :( form". The Fortune Cookie Chronicles official website. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
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  4. ^ Foundas, Scott (April 23, 2014). "Tribeca Film Review: 'The Search for General Tso'". Variety. Archived from the original on July 13, 2014. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
  5. ^ "Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. October 27, 2017. Archived from the original on November 5, 2017. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
  6. ^ Warzel, Charlie (December 20, 2015). "One Woman's Bizarre, Delightful Quest To Change Emojis Forever". Buzzfeed. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  7. ^ Kar, Ian (February 11, 2016). "Dumplings and fortune cookies: Your emoji are about to get even more diverse". Quartz. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  8. ^ Farber, Madeline (September 15, 2016). "Unicode Is Considering a Hijab Emoji". Fortune.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016.