CV HIGHLIGHTS

EDUCATION 

2012       Ph.D. Comparative Ethnic Studies ι University of California at Berkeley (anticipated, 2012)

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

2011            Honorable Mention & Letter of Merit, SCBWI Work-in-Progress Grant

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

Book of Dreams: The Story of Chinese Adoptee Links International  ι  2016

Inspiration Ice Cream (forthcoming) ι  2012

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

2012         Rebirthing the Nation: How Transnational Adoption Bridges the Motherline & Builds Social Capital                        Across Communities (Ph.D. dissertation)

2012         "Adoption and Social Capital: Risk & Resiliency Revisited" (working paper)

2012         "Crazy Cakes and the Red Blanket: Social Capital and Adoption Narratives" (working paper)

2012         "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 (University of California, Berkeley)

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

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

TALKS

Barcelona, Spain  ι  Casa del Mar, Barcelona 2010

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   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