The woman who will decide what emoji we get to use

An interview with the head of our phone's emotional cues. Behind the thumbs up or smiley face on your phone is the Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit group of hardware and software companies best known for being the gatekeeper of emojis: releasing them and approving or rejecting new ones. As the new head of Unicode, Jennifer Daniel has a vision for making these symbols work for everyone. Tanya Basu talks with her about how her role and the future of emoji.