Jennifer 8 Lee
<DIV><B>Jennifer 8 Lee</B>, the daughter of Chinese immigrants and a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese herself, grew up eating her mother's authentic Chinese food in her family's New York City kitchen before graduating from Harvard in 1999 with a degree in Applied Mathematics and economics and studying at Beijing University. At the age of 24, she was hired by the <I>New York Times</I>, where she is a metro repoter and has written a variety of stories on culture, poverty, and technology.</DIV>