User:Jenny8lee

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, the Nobel Prizes, Eurovision, SXSW, the International Journalism Festival in Perugia and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. More than 1 in 200 Wikipedia pageviews globally are now powered by a WikiPortraits photo — higher in months when the Oscars take place and a Pope is announced.

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. And we did another WikiCredCon at the Internet Archive in February 2025.

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.

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

This user is a WikiPortraits Cofounder.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red