Jennifer 8. Lee

I'm focusing on the reinvention of journalism, both content and underlying business model. I was a York Times reporter for nine years -- now think about blogging. My next book is called "Left to My Own Devices" with Simon & Schuster. And it is about the struggle to me emotionally present in an age when we are constantly connected. I traveled around the world to learn about Chinese food and came out with "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles," a book about how Chinese food is all-American. Discovered that fortune cookies are really Japanese. Held my own Popularized "man date" as a term in a Sunday Style article. Former board member of the Poynter Institute. Lead judge for the Knight News Challenge. Board chair of the Asian American Writers Workshop. Studied applied math and economics at Harvard. How did I end up as a writer?

the future of reading and storytelling, journalism.

Educate a boy and you educate a boy. Educate a girl and you educate her whole family and the next generation. Dollar per dollar, educating women is one of the most effective investments in the developing world as two-thirds of the world's 781 million illiterate adults are women. But the problem is of course, it's not just about the books and buildings. There are a lot of cultural, systemic problems around education. For example, sexual harassment molestation in schools (in Africa) that makes it detrimental in some cases for parents to send their daughters to school. What can you do about that?

Chinese food, Journalism Innovation

creating comedic short films (a short on introducing fortune cookies to China made it to the Disposable Film Festival) and analyzing behaviors of straight men.