CV HIGHLIGHTS

EDUCATION 

2010       Ph.D. Comparative Ethnic Studies ι University of California at Berkeley (Fall 2010)

2003       Masters Gender Studies ι Harvard University

2001       B.F.A. (Film) & B.A. (Comparative Literature) ι New York University's Tisch School of the Arts

1999       Paris Study Abroad Program ι La Maison de New York University in PARIS, France

AWARDS

2009-2010         Peter & Candy Robertson Culture Bridge Scholar, International House (UC Berkeley)

2007-2008         University of California Dean's Normative Time Fellow 

2004-2008         University of California Chancellor's Fellow

2000-2003         Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Millennium Scholar

1996-2000         New York University Tisch School of the Arts President's Scholar

CO-FOUNDER

2006         Chinese Adoptee Links (CAL) International

2008         Global Generations, Incorporated        

COMMITTEES

2008-present      Board of Directors, Global Generations

2006-present      Board of Directors, Chinese Adoptee Links (CAL) International

2006-2008          Board of Directors, International Adoptee Congress

2007-present      Board of Advisors, Families with Children from China - Northern California

MEMBER

2009-present         Harvardwood - "Harvard Alumni...in the Arts, Media and Entertainment"

2009-2010            Asian American Journalists Association

2008-present         The Authors Guild

2007-present         Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI)

PEN NAMES

J.J.S.

J.S. London

J. Precious Jade

Jennifer Bao Yu "Precious Jade" Jue-Steuck

J.J. Sky

COLUMNS          

2007-present         "(G2) Global Girls - Global Generations"  ι  Adoption Today

2007-present         "Global Girls"  ι  Mei Magazine  

CONTRIBUTOR

Condé Nast Publications ι NYC

The MIT Press ι Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Oxford University Press ι UK

St. Martin's Press ι NYC

BOOKS

Global Girls (forthcoming)  ι  2015

Book of Dreams: The Story of Chinese Adoptee Links International  ι  2014

Callie Cable & The Time Twister (forthcoming) ι  2013

Leaving Grand Central (forthcoming) ι  2012

Inspiration Ice Cream (forthcoming) ι  2010

Let's Go: USA (co-author)  ι  NYC: St. Martin's Press, 2004

Let's Go: Washington, DC (co-author)  ι  NYC: St. Martin's Press, 2004

A Toy Story: The History of F.A.O. Schwarz  ι  NYC: F.A.O. Schwarz, 2002

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

2010         Adoption Pride: Bridging Social Capital Across Communities (Ph.D. dissertation)

2010         "Adoption and Social Capital: Risk & Resiliency Revisited" (working paper)

2010         "Crazy Cakes and the Red Blanket: Social Capital and Adoption Narratives" (working paper)

2010         "Adoption & Dating: Love, Identity, and Belonging in an Internet Era" (working paper)

2006         "From Anne Shirley to Annie Warbucks: Orphan Characters in Literature" (working paper)

2005         Insatiable Appetite The Berkeley Graduate (Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley 2005)

2005         Made in the USA, Conceived in China The Berkeley Graduate (Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley 2005)

2003         "John J. Graham: Behind the [NBC] Peacock's Plumage" Design Issues v.19 n.4 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003)

TALKS

Albuquerque, USA  ι  39th Annual Conference of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research 2010

New York University, USA  ι  5th Biennial Adoption Conference Identity & the Adopted Teen 2008

Trinity College, Dublin, IRELAND  ι   Children's Research Centre Roundtable on Adoption 2008

Duke University, USA  ι   China Care Adoption Talk 2008

Harvard University, USA  ι   China Care Adoption Talk 2007

University of East Anglia, Norwich, ENGLAND  ι   The 2nd International Conference on Adoption Research (ICAR2) 2006

University of California at Berkeley, USA  ι   Center for Race and Gender 2006