Jennifer Daniel, the woman who will decide what emoji we get to use

Jennifer Daniel became famous after introducing emoji such as Mx. Claus and a masculine face wearing a bridal veil; image courtesy of Google

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Daniel is the first woman to chair the Emoji Subcommittee for the Unicode Consortium, a non-profit group of hardware and software companies aiming to make text and emoji readable and accessible to everyone. A fierce advocate for inclusive, thoughtful emoji, she’s on a mission to make these characters as broadly representative as possible.

By Tanya BasuEmoji are now part of our language. If you’re like most people, you pepper your texts, Instagram posts, and TikTok videos with various little images to augment your words—maybe the syringe with a bit of blood dripping from it when you got your vaccination, the prayer (or high-fiving?) hands as a shortcut to “thank you,” a rosy-cheeked smiley face with jazz hands for a covid-safe hug from afar. Today’s emoji catalogue includes nearly

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