Jennifer 8. Lee

Jennifer 8. Lee
Lí Kēng
Jennifer 8. Lee in 2017
Born
Jennifer Lee

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

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

Lee is a vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, 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. She also co-authored the proposal for a hijab emoji.