User:Jenny8lee

My name is Jennifer 8. Lee. I am a long-time friend of Wikipedia—back to the earliest Jimmy Wales days (when he still lived in St. Petersburg, Florida). But I only made it to my first Wikimania, in Singapore, in 2023.

Many years ago in the early Y2Ks, my New York Times colleague Andrew Zipern AIM'd me that I had a Wikipedia page, and I was like, What's Wikipedia?

Also I am the creator of the dumpling emoji via my work with Emojination, and my work on the hijab emoji and interracial couple emoji have been collected by the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

I helped organize the "Wikicred" conference at MIT in 2019 — a.k.a. WikiCredcon, a.k.a the WikiConference North America. That eventually became a group that disperses WikiCred microgrants. In February 2020, I was honored with an award from the Wikipedia DC chapter for something.

I was a reporter for The New York Times, wrote a book on American Chinese food called The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, and produce documentaries (including The Search for General Tso).

I live a life of one-way flights. Despite that, people love to give me fridge magnets as presents.