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. Though since then I’ve also attended the Wikimedia Hackathon in Tallinn, Estonia.

Wikimedia Experience
I first learned of Wikipedia many years ago in the early Y2Ks, when my then-New York Times colleague Andrew Zipern AIM'd me that I had a Wikipedia page, and I was like, What's Wikipedia?

Since then, I’ve been involved in the Wikiverse in myriad ways. I was on the search committee for Wikimedia NYC for the first executive director.

I am also a cofounder of WikiPortraits with Andrew Lih, Kevin Payravi and Frank Schulenburg. We cover festivals and awards ceremonies with professional caliber photography, including the Cannes Film Festival, SXSW, the International Journalism Festival in Perugia and Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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 my work in that space.

Background
I am the co-creator of the dumpling emoji with Yiying Lu 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 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.

Boxes
Some of those nifty boxes people like but are a pain to layout: