Jennifer 8. Lee
About Jennifer 8. Lee
I'm often the money person for mission driven projects. I’m co-founder and CEO of a literary studio called Plympton, which innovates in digital publishing and has partnered with the New York Public Library, the White House, Amazon, The New York Times, Audible, Twitter and the MIT Media Lab. I currently do a lot of work in the misinformation space, having cofounded Misinfocon series and the Credibility Coalition through Hacks/Hackers. I produce film projects, including "The Search for General Tso" and "The Emoji Story", both which premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival. I was an associate producer on Chasing Coral, which won the 2017 Sundance Audience Award for documentary. I do a lot of emoji work as the co-creators of Emojination and Emojicon. I'm on the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee. I was a Fast Company 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2018 for my emoji work. In the past: I was one of the youngest full-reporters ever hired by The New York Times. I wrote a book called The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, on how Chinese food is all-American and hit #26 on the New York Times bestseller list. I was a lead judge in the Knight News Challenge that gave away $25 million for news innovation. Projects that I (or others) dreamt up that I've helped make real include News Foo (now Newsgeist), Hackers/Hackers, Recovering the Classics, Spark Camp, and NewsDiffs. NPR called me a “conceptual scoop artist” and Esquire magazine listed me among the “Women We Love." In journalism, I serve on the board of the Center for Public Integrity, MuckRock and InsideClimate News, on the advisory boards of the Nieman Foundation and the Polk Awards, and also on the Robert F. Kennedy Courage in Journalism awards. I also am on the board of Hacks/Hackers. In literary world, I serve on the the boards of The Asian American Writers’ Workshop and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Committee. I received my degree in applied math and economics at Harvard University (where I was vice president of The Harvard Crimson) and then I went to Beijing University for a year on fellowship and studied international relations.