# guidebook_poi

name: Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, University of Missouri
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label: Bronze Sponsor
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contact_email: pichtr@rjionline.org
description:
  <p>The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute works with media professionals, scholars and other citizens on projects and programs aimed at strengthening journalism in the service of democracy.</p>

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name: Scripps Howard Fund
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label: Bronze Sponsor
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contact_email: SHFund@scripps.com
description:
  <p>The Scripps Howard Fund supports philanthropic causes important to The E.W. Scripps Company,</p>
  <p>with a special emphasis on excellence in journalism. From undergraduate internships to post-graduate</p>
  <p>fellowships, and a prestigious award competition to honor established journalists, our programs support</p>
  <p>and develop journalists as they advance through their educational career paths, developing a pipeline of</p>
  <p>talent with the skills to adapt to today’s newsrooms.</p>


name: ABC News
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label: Silver Sponsor
links: []
cog_details: []
description:
  <p>ABC News is responsible for all of The ABC Television Network’s news programming, including broadcast, streaming, digital and audio. ABC’s award-winning newscasts include “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “GMA3: What You Need to Know,” “Nightline,” “20/20” and “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” ABC’s “The View” joined the news division in 2014, “Tamron Hall” joined in 2021, and in 2018, ABC News launched 24/7 streaming news channel ABC News Live and acquired renowned data journalism organization FiveThirtyEight. NewsOne, the affiliate news service of ABC News, provides live and packaged news, sports and weather reports to over 200 ABC affiliates and more than 30 domestic and international clients. More people get their news from ABC News than from any other source.</p>


name: Social, Behavioral, & Economic COVID Coordinating Center
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label: Exhibitor - Booth #10
locations: 4297634
links: []
cog_details: []
description:
  <p>The Social, Behavioral, and Economic COVID Coordinating Center (<a href="https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/sbeccc/" target="_blank">SBE CCC</a>), led by <a href="https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/" target="_blank">ICPSR</a>, provides a nexus for communication on COVID-19 related research, streamlining information-sharing across the behavioral and social science community, multiple NIH award recipients, and the public. It promotes collaborative work across a multidisciplinary research community, each with different missions, cultures, and ethos. In addition, the project provides teaching materials, data, and opportunities to apply for pilot studies on the impacts of COVID-19 among minority populations.</p>


name: Redistricting Data Hub
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label: Exhibitor - Booth #15
locations: 4297634
links: []
cog_details: []
description:
  <p>The nonpartisan Redistricting Data Hub provides free data and support for state legislative and congressional redistricting. Their mission is to provide individuals, civic organizations, and good government groups the data, resources, and knowledge to participate effectively in redistricting processes by learning how to define their communities, provide meaningful public input, recognize gerrymandering, and advocate for fair and legal maps.</p>


name: Lumina Foundation
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label: Bronze Sponsor
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contact_email: tchen@luminafoundation.org
description:
  <p>Lumina Foundation is an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis that is committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all. We envision a system that is easy to navigate, delivers fair results and meets the nation’s need for talent through a broad range of credentials. Our goal is to prepare people for informed citizenship and success in a global economy. With an endowment of $1.5 billion, Lumina is the largest philanthropy in the United States focused solely on increasing the proportion of Americans with learning beyond high school. The foundation is working with partners toward a goal of 60 percent of working-age people in the United States with college degrees, certificates, certifications, and other quality credentials by 2025.</p>
  <br>
  <p>Our work is centered on people who are Black, Hispanic and Latino, and Native American; who are from low-income families; who are the first in their families to participate in education or training after high school; and who are working-age adults.</p>

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name: Knight Foundation
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label: Diamond Sponsor
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description:
  <p><a href="https://knightfoundation.org/">Knight Foundation</a> is a national foundation with strong local roots. We invest in journalism, in the arts, and in the success of cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. Our goal is to foster informed and engaged communities, which we believe are essential for a healthy democracy.</p>

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name: Vanderbilt Data Science Institute
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label: Recruiter - Booth #20
locations: 4297634
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cog_details: []
description:
  <p>Vanderbilt&#x27;s Data Science Institute is excited to offer a master’s program designed to equip students with the interdisciplinary skills needed to extract knowledge and discover insights from complex data. Our program combines principles from statistics, computer science and business to provide students with the knowledge and skills to become a well-rounded data scientist. Join our 4-semester, 16-course program to learn the latest data science techniques, sharpen your workplace skills, and become a leader in the field. With the guidance of our diverse faculty, you will be equipped to design computational pipelines, acquire and manage large data sets, produce effective displays, implement machine learning algorithms and understand the ethical, policy and privacy implications of data science research.</p>


name: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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label: Gold Sponsor
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description:
  <p>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution serves a growing, vibrant and diverse metro area in one of the country’s most politically important states. If you believe in the power of professional journalism to shape a better society and more informed citizenry, join our digital- and data-focused team that is ensuring this mission lasts well into the future. Learn about <a href="https://jobs.coxenterprises.com/en/about-cox/businesses/cox-enterprises/atlanta-journal-constitution/" target="_blank">AJC career opportunities</a>.</p>

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name: The Tennessean
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label: Silver Sponsor
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contact_email: manastasi@tennessean.com
description:
  <p>The Tennessean is a fast-paced, collaborative news operation full of ambitious journalists at every stage of their careers. It’s the state’s largest news organization, where reporting frequently leads to change at state and local levels. We aspire to achieve consistent excellence while serving all members of our community. In the past two years, we’ve been recognized with the Scripps Howard Award, an Online Journalism Award from ONA, multiple Signa Delta Chi awards and were named grand prize winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, in addition to numerous state and regional honors. As part of the USA TODAY Network, we work closely with colleagues across the state, including Memphis and Knoxville, across the South and across the nation. Learn more about our team.</p>


name: The Paranoids at Yahoo
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label: Silver Sponsor
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description:
  <p>As a company, Yahoo connects people to the things they care about most. As a security organization, the Paranoids believe these experiences should be safe and respectful by default.</p>
  <p>Website: <a href="http://theparanoids.com/" target="_blank">http://theparanoids.com/</a></p>

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name: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
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label: Supporter Sponsor
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description:
  <p>The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press provides pro bono legal representation, <em>amicus curiae</em> support, and other legal resources to protect First Amendment freedoms and the newsgathering rights of journalists.</p>
  <br>
  <p>The Reporters Committee serves news organizations, reporters, editors, documentary filmmakers, media lawyers, and many more who use our online resources. For updates on our work, sign up for our <a href="http://eepurl.com/daW4r9">email list</a>, or follow us on <a href="http://facebook.com/ReportersCommittee">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/rcfp">Twitter</a>. Website: <a href="https://www.rcfp.org/">https://www.rcfp.org/</a></p>


name: Code of Conduct (IRE Principles)
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description:
  <p>Investigative Reporters &amp; Editors is committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of race, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, appearance or religion. </p>
  <br>
  <p>IRE supports vigorous debate and welcomes disagreement, while maintaining a civil and respectful community. Discriminatory or harassing behavior is not permitted. </p>
  <br>
  <p>IRE may take any action it deems appropriate to deal with those who violate our principles, including exclusion from our events, forums, listservs and the organization itself. </p>
  <br>
  <p>The IRE Principles apply to all events and meetings that IRE holds, including entirely virtual ones. Members agree to follow these principles throughout all communications related to the conference and meetings. </p>
  <br>
  <p>This Code of Conduct covers all participants in IRE events and meetings and is in effect the entire time from the beginning until the end of our events and meetings. </p>
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  <p>To report a violation of the Code of Conduct, go to <a href="http://ire.org/code-of-conduct" target="_blank">ire.org/code-of-conduct</a>. </p>
  <br>
  <p>A participant also can bring a concern to any IRE staff or board member (identified by their badges) or send an email with your name and contact information to <a href="mailto:conduct@ire.org" target="_blank">conduct@ire.org</a></p>


name: #NICAR23 FAQs
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description:
  <h1><strong>#NICAR22 FAQ&#x27;s</strong></h1>
  <p><strong>What&#x27;s the wifi network and password?</strong></p>
  <p>Network: Renaissance_CONFERENCE</p>
  <p>Password: nicar23</p>
  <br>
  <p><strong>Where do I pick up my name tag?</strong></p>
  <p>NICAR23 registration is located in Grand Ballroom 1 located on the lobby level. Please have your ID ready when picking up your name badge. Name tags must be worn to all conference sessions and receptions.</p>
  <br>
  <p><strong>Where do I go if I still need to register?</strong></p>
  <p>NICAR23 registration is located in Grand Ballroom 1 located on the lobby level. We will have on-site registration available. Payment methods accepted are: Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. Please check to be sure your IRE membership is current as this will speed up the registration process. </p>
  <br>
  <p><strong>Is there somewhere I can check my bags for the day?</strong></p>
  <p>Hotel guests of the Renaissance Nashville Hotel can check luggage at the bell stand in the hotel lobby. IRE conference staff are not able to store bags for attendees.</p>
  <br>
  <p><strong>Is there a lost and found?</strong></p>
  <p>Yes. Check with IRE registration staff located in Grand Ballroom 1 on the lobby level, the message board or hotel security.</p>
  <br>
  <p><strong>I&#x27;m looking for a job, are current postings listed anywhere?</strong></p>
  <p>The job board will be located on the lobby level in the Grand Ballroom Foyer. All job postings should be single-sided on 8.5&quot;x11&quot; letter sized paper. When you have your posting ready, please drop it off at the NICAR sales desk located in Grand Ballroom 1 to be approved and posted. </p>
  <br>
  <p><strong>Can I get a list of conference attendees?</strong></p>
  <p>We don&#x27;t release that information, but if you&#x27;re looking for someone in particular, find an IRE staff person.</p>
  <br>
  <p><strong>Is there somewhere I can print a document?</strong></p>
  <p>Limited printing is available in the Cyber Cafe which is located just outside Grand Ballroom 1 on the lobby level. A FedEx Office is available on-site for larger print jobs.</p>
  <br>
  <p><strong>Will there be food and drink at the first timers reception?</strong></p>
  <p>Each attendee will receive one drink ticket for beer, wine, bottled water or soda. Additional drinks can be purchased at a cash bar. Light appetizers will be provided. </p>
  <br>
  <p><strong>Will there be food and drink at the welcome reception?</strong></p>
  <p>Each attendee will receive one drink ticket for beer, wine, bottled water or soda. Additional drinks can be purchased at a cash bar. Light appetizers will be provided. </p>
  <br>
  <p><strong>Will there be food and drink at the Philip Meyer Awards Reception?</strong></p>
  <p>There will be a cash bar and light appetizers will be provided. </p>
  <br>
  <p><strong>Is coffee and/or lunch provided at the conference?</strong></p>
  <p>IRE does not provide coffee but there is coffee available in the market just off the hotel lobby along with different restaurant options nearby.</p>


name: The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy
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label: Exhibitor - Booth #40
locations: 4297634
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cog_details: []
description:
  <p>The Vanderbilt Project on Unity &amp; American Democracy aims to elevate research and evidence-based reasoning in the national conversation and the public discourse that flows from it. The Unity Project believes we can bridge America’s most profound differences through solid journalism, academic research, and open-engaged citizens working to create a more perfect union.</p>


name: Lauren Grandestaff
label: IRE & NICAR
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name: Clayton Aldern
label: Grist
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description:
  <p>Clayton Aldern is a senior data reporter at Grist. He has contributed to reporting teams that have won multiple Online Journalism Awards, the Breaking Barriers Award from the Institute for Nonprofit News, and a National Edward R. Murrow Award. His book The Weight of Nature, on the relationships between climate change and brain health, is forthcoming from Dutton.</p>

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name: Peter Aldhous
label: University of California - Berkeley
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description:
  <p>Peter is a data, science, and investigative reporter based in San Francisco. He also teaches data visualization at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and investigative and policy reporting and data visualization in the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He runs training in data analysis and visualization for the Berkeley Advanced Media Institute.</p>

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name: Madi Alexander
label: POLITICO
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name: Agustin Armendariz
label: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
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description:
  <p> Agustin Armendariz is ICIJ's senior data reporter. Prior to joining ICIJ Agustin was a reporter at The New York Times. He's also worked for the Center for Investigative Reporting, San Diego Union-Tribune and the Center for Public Integrity. Most people call him Augie. </p>

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name: Carla Astudillo
label: The Texas Tribune
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description:
  <p> Carla Astudillo is a senior data visuals developer with a focus on elections and political data at The Texas Tribune. Previously, she was a data and interactive visuals journalist at <a href="http://NJ.com">NJ.com</a> and The Star-Ledger in New Jersey. </p>

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name: David Barer
label: KXAN
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description:
  <p> David is the senior investigative producer and reporter with KXAN News -- the NBC affiliate of Central Texas. David has been formulating, shepherding and smashing that publish button on data-driven investigations for the last eight years. Using data, he covered nursing homes extensively during the pandemic and beyond. </p>

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name: Rob Barry
label: The Wall Street Journal
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description:
  <p> Rob Barry is an investigative reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal. He helps lead a team of reporters who specialize in computer programming and data analysis. </p>

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name: Pri Bengani
label: Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School
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description:
  <p>Pri Bengani is a senior computational fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism where she relies on computational techniques to research the digital media landscape, including partisan local news and the intersection of platform companies with the media.</p>

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name: Helena Bengtsson
label: Gota Media
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  <p> Helena Bengtsson is data journalism editor at Gota Media, a regional publishing company in the south of Sweden with 14 local titles. She previously worked as editor for data journalism at Sveriges Television, Sweden’s national television broadcaster, for 27 years, and she also served as editor, data projects, at The Guardian between 2014-2017. In 2006 and 2007, she was database editor at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. </p>

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name: Frank Bi
label: Star Tribune
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  <p> Frank Bi is a senior journalist, technologist, educator and nonprofit leader passionate about the intersection of media and technology. He is the Director of Tools and Technology at the Star Tribune and the Senior Vice President of the Asian American Journalists Association. </p>

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name: Justin-Casimir Braun
label: Lighthouse Reports
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  <p> Justin is a data journalist focused on the societal impact of digital systems, artificial intelligence and viral conspiracies. In the past, Justin has worked with AlgorithmWatch, a German digital rights organization, the Stanford Internet Observatory and various grassroots non-governmental organizations, documenting human rights violations against migrants on the Balkan Route. He holds a bachelor's degree in international relations from Stanford University. </p>

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name: Andrew Briz
label: POLITICO
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  <p> Andrew Briz is the Editorial Director of Newsroom Engineering at POLITICO where he leads a small team of developers to create tools and products that advance the newsroom’s storytelling capabilities. Since starting as a developer, he has engineered award-winning products like The 2020 Election Night Experience and Congress Minutes. When not coding, you can find Andrew jamming to K-Pop or creating an enthralling conquest for his Dungeons and Dragons group to encounter. </p>

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name: Meredith Broussard
label: New York University
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  <p>Meredith Broussard is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and the research director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology. She is the author of a new book, &quot;More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech.&quot; Her research focuses on artificial intelligence in investigative reporting, with particular interests in AI ethics and using data analysis for social good.</p>

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name: Jean Marie Brown
label: Texas Christian University
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  <p>Jean Marie Brown is an associate professor of professional practice in journalism, and a director of student media at Texas Christian University. She is a senior Fault Lines trainer for the Maynard Institute. Brown spent most of her professional career working for Knight Ridder, and later McClatchy newspapers. She held management positions at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Charlotte Observer.</p>


name: Karina Brown
label: Underscore
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  <p> As managing editor, Karina guides Underscore’s mission to illuminate the strength and vibrancy of Indigenous communities as well as the challenges they face. Starting out in journalism in 2005, she has reported in a wide variety of places, from the chaos of far-right extremist rallies to the hushed decorum of federal courtrooms, and she has focused on environmental issues, policing and tribal sovereignty. </p>

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name: Noah Buhayar
label: Bloomberg News
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  <p> Noah Buhayar is a data editor at Bloomberg News, where he's worked since 2010 covering real estate and financial services. </p>

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name: Sarah Butrymowicz
label: The Hechinger Report
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  <p> Sarah Butrymowicz is senior editor for investigations at the Hechinger Report. Prior to assuming that role, she spent four years as a staff writer covering K-12 and higher education and two years as Hechinger's data editor. Her work has appeared in dozens of outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and NBC News, and she has been honored by several journalism awards. </p>

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name: Darla Cameron
label: The Texas Tribune
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  <p> Darla Cameron is the managing editor for visual journalism for The Texas Tribune. She works with multidisciplinary teams to elevate the visual storytelling and reach audiences across Texas. </p>

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name: Ronald Campbell
label: NBCUniversal Owned TV Stations
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description:
  <p> Ronald Campbell is data editor for the NBC Owned Television Stations. He previously created the computer-assisted reporting program at the Orange County Register. He has won the IRE Award, the Loeb Award and placed in the Philip Meyer Award. He lives in Orange County, CA, with his wife and cat. When not getting frustrated with databases he gets frustrated hiking. </p>

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name: Emma Carew Grovum
label: The Marshall Project
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  <p> Emma Carew Grovum is the director of careers and culture at The Marshall Project and the founder of Kimbap Media. In addition to supporting newsrooms on their diversity, equity and inclusion journeys, she is also a product strategist and leadership coach. Emma is a past fellow at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute and also worked to help build a practical guide to preparing newsrooms for source tracking. </p>

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name: Matt Carroll
label: Northeastern University
links: []
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description:
  <p> Matt Carroll is a journalism professor at Northeastern University. Previously he ran the Future of News initiative at the MIT Media Lab. He also worked at the Boston Globe, specializing in data storytelling. He was a member of the Spotlight team when it won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003 for its coverage of the Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal. That story was turned into the movie “Spotlight.” </p>


name: Alexandra Chaidez
label: NBC News
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  <p>Alexandra (Alex) Chaidez is a researcher with NBC&#x27;s Investigative Unit, where she reports and produces stories for television and NBC&#x27;s website. She started at NBC as a news associate with Investigations and MSNBC. She has held internships with the Boston Globe, Block Club Chicago, NBC Boston, and CBS News. A Chicago native, she graduated from Harvard College with a degree in History &amp; Literature in 2021.</p>

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name: Sara Chernikoff
label: USAFacts
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name: Annette Choi
label: CNN
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description:
  <p> Annette Choi is a data and graphics editor at CNN digital, currently covering abortion and gun violence. </p>

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name: Grayson Clary
label: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
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description:
  <p> Grayson Clary is a staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, where he works primarily with the organization’s Technology &amp; Press Freedom Project. His litigation, amicus, and advocacy portfolio focuses on press rights issues that arise in the context of national security, law enforcement accountability, and new technologies. Grayson also represents the Reporters Committee on the advisory board of the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. </p>

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name: Sarah Cohen
label: Arizona State University
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name: Eva Constantaras
label: Lighthouse Reports
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description:
  <p> Eva Constantaras is a data journalist specialized in building data journalism collaborations in Europe and in the Global South. These teams have reported from across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa on accountability issues ranging from broken foreign aid and food insecurity to extractive industries and sanctions evasion. She has also been a Google Data Journalism Scholar and a Fulbright Fellow. </p>

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name: Ethan Corey
label: The Appeal
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description:
  <p> Ethan Corey is the research and projects editor for The Appeal, a nonprofit newsroom that covers the criminal justice system. </p>

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name: Emily Corwin
label: independent journalist
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description:
  <p> Emily Corwin is an investigative reporter with a background in public radio and podcasting. Following a Nieman fellowship in 2021, Emily spent a year exposing how a tax credit that was meant to help marginalized workers get permanent jobs instead gives hundreds of millions of dollars to the temp industry. It was published in 2022 by ProPublica. </p>

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name: Shirsho Dasgupta
label: Miami Herald/McClatchy DC Bureau
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description:
  <p> Shirsho Dasgupta is a data/investigative reporter with the Washington Bureau of the Miami Herald/McClatchy newspapers. He often uses Python, SQL and Excel in his work. He has won multiple awards for stories ranging from financial crime to Florida's prison system. He holds Master's degrees in both English and Journalism. </p>

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name: Vianna Davila
label: ProPublica/Texas Tribune
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description:
  <p> Vianna Davila is a reporter with the ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative Initiative. She previously was a reporter with, and then editor of, The Seattle Times’ Project Homeless team. She was a reporter at the San Antonio Express-News for 13 years, covering beats including criminal justice and local government. She has a master's in journalism, with a focus in documentary film, from the University of California, Berkeley. She’s a Texas native. </p>

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name: Chad Day
label: The Wall Street Journal
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description:
  <p> Chad Day covers national politics for The Wall Street Journal and teaches data journalism at Georgetown University. </p>

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name: Matt Dempsey
label: Spotlight PA
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description:
  <p>Matt Dempsey is the interim investigations editor at Spotlight PA. He previously led teams at USAFacts and the Houston Chronicle. His &quot;Chemical Breakdown&quot; series won the 2016 IRE Innovation award and the National Press Foundation’s “Feddie” award. His work was a key part of the Houston Chronicle’s Pulitzer Prize finalist entry for Breaking News.</p>

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name: Pam Dempsey
label: The Data-Driven Reporting Project
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description:
  <p> Pam Dempsey is the program director for the Data-Driven Reporting Project at Northwestern | Medill and past executive director of Investigate Midwest. She also has helped coordinate the start-up of two online newsrooms that heavily emphasize data journalism. </p>

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name: Ash Dhammani
label: Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University
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  <p> Ash Dhammani is a Policy Data Analyst at Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, where he leads the school-level expenditure data collection, standardization and publication efforts. Ash’s research focuses on fiscal data transparency through database development and custom &amp; practical visualizations. He wishes to make education finance data more accessible, eventually contributing to improvements in educational productivity and equity at-large. </p>

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name: Emilia Díaz-Struck
label: The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
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description:
  <p>Emilia is ICIJ’s data and research editor and Latin America coordinator. She has taken part in projects such as ICIJ&#x27;s Implant Files, Pandora Papers, and the Pulitzer-winning Panama Papers investigation. She has been a professor at the Central University of Venezuela and a contributor for the Washington Post, Venezuelan media El Universal, El Mundo, and Armando.info, which she co-founded. She was previously the investigative reporting coordinator at IPYS Venezuela.</p>

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name: Amy DiPierro
label: Center for Public Integrity
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description:
  <p> Amy DiPierro is a data journalist at the Center for Public Integrity. She previously reported for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California and BusinessDen in Denver, Colorado. </p>

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name: Kate Donovan
label: Redistricting Data Hub
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description:
  <p> Kate Donovan is the support lead at the Redistricting Data Hub (RDH). In addition to providing managerial and administrative assistance at the RDH, she conducts research, creates resources and articles for the website and answers questions about data and redistricting through the help desk. She was previously an associate professor of political science and statistics at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. </p>

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name: Jaimi Dowdell
label: Reuters
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description:
  <p>Jaimi Dowdell is a data journalist with Reuters. Previously she was training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors. During that time, she trained thousands of journalists around the world in document- and data-driven reporting. Her work has been recognized with the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism and the Philip Meyer award.</p>

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name: Matt Drange
label: Business Insider
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description:
  <p> Matt Drange is a reporter on Business Insider's investigations desk. He's received dozens of journalism awards and most recently was honored with the First Amendment Coalition's Free Speech &amp; Open Government Award. Matt sits on SABEW's First Amendment Committee as well as the Freedom of Information Committee of SPJ NorCal. He holds a master's degree from the Columbia Journalism School and teaches journalism at his alma mater, Cal Poly Humboldt. </p>

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name: David Eads
label: The Marshall Project
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name: Frank Elavsky
label: Carnegie Mellon University
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description:
  <p>Frank is a former software engineer who worked on a library of accessible data visualization design system components and now is a PhD student and researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. Frank is an invited expert with the Web Accessibility Initiative&#x27;s ARIA working group and organizes and runs a group within the Data Visualization Society focused on accessibility.</p>

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name: Stacy Elliott
label: Decrypt
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name: Amy Fan
label: Scripps News
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description:
  <p> Amy Fan is a investigative data reporter at Scripps News in Washington DC. She's contributed to pieces on a variety of topics, ranging from spam texts, to sex education, to gun violence, and more. Prior to joining Scripps, she was a research assistant at MIT Sloan working on consumer and public finance projects. Amy is a native Houstonian and very excited to be at her first NICAR. </p>

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name: Tiff Fehr
label: The New York Times
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description:
  <p> Tiff Fehr is a staff engineer and project editor within the Interactive News Technology (INT) team, a group of technologists embedded in the newsroom of The New York Times. She focuses on custom software development for the newsroom in addition to data journalism projects like The Times's Covid-19 public data set. </p>

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name: Jeremy Finley
label: WSMV-TV
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description:
  <p> Jeremy Finley is the chief investigative reporter at WSMV-TV and a two-time IRE award winner. He’s also a novelist whose books have been featured by NPR, People Magazine and the New York Post, and the co-host of a PBS program "A Word on Words" which spotlights the works of authors. He lives with his wife and daughters in Nashville, TN. His heroes are journalists, so he already likes you. </p>

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name: Giancarlo Fiorella
label: Bellingcat
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Giancarlo is a researcher/trainer at Bellingcat. He is also a PhD candidate at the Centre for Criminology &amp; Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. </p>

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name: Sandra Fish
label: Colorado Sun
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Sandra Fish is a data journalist specializing in politics working primarily with the Colorado Sun, but also with OpenSecrets. </p>

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name: Jodie Fleischer
label: Cox Media Group
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name: Holden Foreman
label: The Washington Post
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Holden (he/him) is The Washington Post's first-ever accessibility engineer. He has been with The Post since June 2020, when he started as an engineering intern. He worked on live elections coverage from 2021-22. He is also a coordinator of The Post’s engineering internship program. He is passionate about local journalism and newsroom accountability on diversity, equity and inclusion. He is from St. Louis, Missouri, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He loves running. Ask him anything. </p>

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name: Jayme Fraser
label: USA TODAY
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Jayme Fraser is an investigative data journalist for USA TODAY based in Montana. She focuses primarily on inequities and the solutions to them, empowering readers with analysis to back up experiences that might otherwise be dismissed as anecdotal. She is interested in policies that support inclusion in the newsroom. Recently, her work has focused on nursing homes, corporate diversity and COVID-19. She uses R but started in Excel. </p>

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name: Andrea Fuller
label: The Wall Street Journal
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Andrea Fuller is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York who specializes in data analysis. She uses spreadsheets, databases, and computer code to find stories. Andrea joined the Journal in 2014. She previously was a data journalist at Gannett Digital, the Center for Public Integrity and the Chronicle of Higher Education. </p>

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name: Cindy Galli
label: ABC News
cog_details: []
description:
  <p>Cindy Galli is Executive Producer of ABC News’ award-winning Investigative Unit in New York. She oversees a team of network reporters and producers specializing in investigations ranging from government fraud and corporate corruption to racial injustice, consumer and environmental issues. She is currently vice president on IRE’s board of directors and has been a member since 1994. A San Francisco Bay Area native, Cindy began her career at KGO-TV and is a Berkeley alum.</p>

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name: Alex Garcia
label: Independent journalist
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Alex Garcia is a freelance software engineer from Los Angeles. He builds data visualizations, data pipelines, and news applications for data visualization agencies, startups, and newsrooms. He has several open source projects and has great interest in SQLite extensions, Observable notebooks, and command line tools. </p>

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name: Juan Pablo Garnham
label: Eviction Lab
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name: Gabriel Geiger
label: Lighthouse Reports
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description:
  <p>Gabriel Geiger is an Amsterdam-based investigative journalist specializing in surveillance and algorithmic accountability reporting. His work often grapples with issues of inequality and technology from a global lens. He is currently a retainer at Lighthouse Reports and was previously a weekly contributor for VICE’s Motherboard. His reporting can be found in VICE, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, NRC, and Mediapart.</p>

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name: Christopher Guess
label: Duke University Reporters' Lab
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Christopher is a journalist and computer scientist who leads technology development at Duke University's Reporters' Lab focusing on misinformation and fact-checking. Previously he has been an ICFJ Knight Fellow at OCCRP based in Europe for multiple years and began his journalism career as a photojournalist follows by cofounder numerous tech start ups in New York. </p>

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name: Holly Hacker
label: Kaiser Health News
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Holly Hacker is data editor at Kaiser Health News in Washington, DC. Before that Holly worked at The Dallas Morning News as an investigative reporter focused on health care, education, housing and data analysis. She earned her master's degree at the University of Missouri while working at the NICAR database library, back when FoxPro was a thing. </p>

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name: Jasmine Ye Han
label: Industry Dive
cog_details: []
description:
  <p>Jasmine Ye Han is a data journalist and mom of two cats. She is currently a news graphics developer at Industry Dive. Previously, she worked for Bloomberg Industry Group, where she also served as a co-chair of AAPI employee resource group. She is an alum of the Missouri School of Journalism and she was a graduate assistant at NICAR data library in 2015 and 2016.</p>

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name: Jeff Hargarten
label: Star Tribune
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Jeff Hargarten is a Minneapolis-based enterprise journalist at the intersection of data analysis, reporting, coding and design. </p>

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name: Max Harlow
label: Financial Times
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Max Harlow works on the visual and data journalism team at the Financial Times in London, where he focuses on using data to find and tell investigative stories. </p>

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name: Julia Haslanger
label: The Philadelphia Inquirer
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Julia Haslanger is the newsroom analytics lead for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She's previously worked for Hearken and WSJ in roles related to engaging audiences with journalism. She currently lives in Chicago. </p>

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name: Tim Henderson
label: Pew Charitable Trusts
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Tim Henderson is a data analyst and demographics writer at Stateline, part of the Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, DC. He has also been a web developer and reporter at Gannett Newspapers in New York and the Miami Herald. </p>

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name: Cam Hickey
label: NCOC
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Cameron Hickey is the CEO of the National Conference on Citizenship. He leads an effort to develop methodologies and tools for collecting and analyzing data to increase transparency about how large digital platforms impact society. Hickey covered science and technology for the PBS NewsHour and NOVA and has won a News and Documentary Emmy Award and a Newhouse Mirror Award for his journalism. </p>

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name: Geoff Hing
label: The Marshall Project
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  <p> Geoff Hing is a data reporter who has worked as part of investigative, data and news applications teams in a number of newsrooms. He has covered demographic change, prisons, voting rights and policing. He is interested in collaborative, multidisciplinary practice in journalism. Geoff lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where he enjoys DIY music, reading, trail running, mountain biking and visiting communities around the state. </p>

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name: Josh Hinkle
label: KXAN/St. Edward's University
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  <p> Josh Hinkle is KXAN’s director of investigations and innovation, leading the station’s duPont and IRE Award-winning investigative team on multiple platforms. He also leads KXAN’s political coverage as executive producer and host of “State of Texas,” a weekly statewide program focused on the Texas Legislature and elections. Josh teaches broadcast journalism at St. Edward’s University in Austin. In 2021, he was elected to the IRE Board of Directors. </p>

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name: Karen K. Ho
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  <p>Karen K. Ho is a senior staff writer at ARTnews, where she reports on business and art crime. She has contributed to many publications, including Quartz, Business Insider, Men&#x27;s Health, Glamour, GQ, TIME, The New York Times, The Cut, and the Columbia Journalism Review. She enjoys making Datawrapper charts and taught herself Tracery and JSON to make the Doomscroll Reminder Bot.</p>

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name: Brant Houston
label: University of Illinois and Investigate Midwest
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  <p>Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigate Reporting at the University of Illinois. He served as the executive director of IRE for a decade. He was an investigative reporter in daily newsrooms for 17 years. He was a co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network in 2003 and co-founder of the Institute for Nonprofit News in 2009. He is a co-author of The Investigative Reporter&#x27;s Handbook and the author of Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide.</p>

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name: Kate Howard
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  <p>Kate Howard (she/her) is an investigative editor for Reveal, and a member of IRE’s board of directors.<br><br>Previously, she was managing editor at the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. She spent nearly 14 years as a reporter, including stints at The Tennessean, The Florida Times-Union and the Omaha World-Herald. Her work has been a finalist for a Peabody Award and the recipient of two national Investigative Reporters &amp; Editors Awards. Howard is based in Louisville, Kentucky.</p>

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name: Kate Huangpu
label: Spotlight PA
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description:
  <p> A graduate of the Columbia Journalism School’s data journalism program, Huangpu got her start reporting on police accountability and social services for survivors of domestic violence in New York City. She previously worked at ABC’s World News Tonight and MSNBC. Huangpu now follows how and why the state government works the way it does, paying special attention to how the structure of our government expands or excludes who can participate in democracy. </p>

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name: Dianna Hunt
label: ICT (formerly Indian Country Today)
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  <p> Dianna Hunt, senior editor at ICT (formerly Indian Country Today) is a longtime editor and investigative reporter at the Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and other news organizations. As the Chronicle’s metro editor, she directed and edited the Pulitzer Prize-finalist breaking news coverage of Hurricane Harvey. She served three terms on IRE’s board. Current boards: Fund for Investigative Journalism and Investigative Editing Corps. </p>

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name: Nausheen Husain
label: Syracuse University
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name: Jessica Huseman
label: Votebeat
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name: Kristen Hwang
label: CalMatters
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  <p> Kristen Hwang is an award-winning health policy reporter and documentary filmmaker. She earned dual master's degrees in journalism and public health at UC Berkeley studying water quality and other environmental exposures. She uses spatial and data analysis to examine the intersection of public health, policy and social justice. Her work has appeared in publications like CalMatters, the New York Times, USA Today, the Desert Sun and more. </p>

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name: Sanjin Ibrahimovic
label: MuckRock
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name: Sahana Jayaraman
label: Arizona Republic
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description:
  <p> Sahana Jayaraman is an investigative data reporter for the Arizona Republic. She writes and codes, using R and Python to collect, analyze and present data that helps tell human stories. </p>

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name: Christine Jeavens
label: BBC News
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description:
  <p> Christine Jeavans is a Senior Data Journalist at BBC News with a focus on health inequalities, social issues and politics. Recent projects include covering the U.S. midterms, Covid's links to deprivation and the award-winning NHS Tracker. </p>

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name: Ryann Jones
label: ProPublica
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  <p> Ryann Grochowski Jones is the data editor at ProPublica, where she oversees the newsroom's most ambitious data-driven investigative projects. Previously, she was a data reporter at ProPublica and Investigative Newsource in San Diego, California. She received her master’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where she was a data librarian for IRE/NICAR. Ryann began her career as a municipal beat reporter for her hometown newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. </p>

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name: Alexandra Kanik
label: Houston Chronicle / San Antonio Express-News
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description:
  <p> Alexandra Kanik is the data visualization editor for the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News. Previously, she worked as a data journalist for Louisville Public Media and PublicSource. </p>

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name: Jeff Kao
label: ProPublica
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  <p> Jeff Kao is a computational journalist at ProPublica. His collaboration with The New York Times on Chinese government censorship of the coronavirus outbreak was a part of the newspaper’s winning entry for the 2021 public service Pulitzer. His project on Parler and the Capitol riots was cited throughout Donald Trump’s second impeachment hearing and won the 2021 IRE Award for breaking news. His work has also won the Loeb Award for international reporting in 2022. </p>

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name: Adiel Kaplan
label: NBC News
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  <p> Adiel Kaplan is a reporter with the NBC News national investigative unit. Her stories frequently run as both articles on <a href="http://NBCNews.com">NBCNews.com</a> and television segments on Nightly News, the TODAY Show and NBC News NOW. She is an assistant professor at Columbia Journalism School's Stabile Center for Investigative Reporting, and she previously worked for the Miami Herald and InvestigateWest. </p>

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name: Neena Kapur
label: The New York Times
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  <p>Neena Kapur is the director of information security at The New York Times, and leads teams across threat intelligence, security education, and security operations. She&#x27;s also an instructor for a journalist safety research program at OsloMet University, where she teaches digital security topics. Neena has been at NYT for more than 5 years, and previously worked in consulting and government. Neena enjoys cooking, hanging out with her cat, playing volleyball, and napping.</p>

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name: Jon Keegan
label: The Markup
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  <p> Jon Keegan is an investigative data journalist at The Markup. Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, researching signals of trust in online news and studying the role of AI in journalism. He also worked at The Wall Street Journal for 18 years, where he ran the interactive graphics team. </p>

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name: Kelly Kenoyer
label: WHQR
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  <p> Kelly Kenoyer is a reporter and host at WHQR, the NPR affiliate in Wilmington, North Carolina. She produces long-form and investigative podcasts alongside short-form work. </p>

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name: Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi
label: Independent journalist
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  <p>Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi is a Nigerian freelance multimedia investigative journalist based in London. She has a keen interest in environmental and climate reports. A fact-checker. A member of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network of the Reuters Institute of Journalism. She has spearheaded and led several investigations on environmental and climate issues in Europe and West Africa. Her work has been supported by Journalismfund.eu, The Pulitzer Centre, etc.</p>

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name: Sidnee King
label: Illinois Answers
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name: Scott Klein
label: THE CITY
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  <p>Scott is the Chief Product Officer at THE CITY in New York City. He oversees the teams at the intersection of journalism and technology, including product management, engineering, interactive news, and data reporting. Before THE CITY, he helped start ProPublica and founded its award-winning news applications and data teams. He also co-founded DocumentCloud and sits on the board of MuckRock.</p>

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name: Meredith Kolodner
label: The Hechinger Report
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  <p> Meredith Kolodner writes investigative articles and produces data analyses for higher education and K-12 stories at The Hechinger Report. She previously covered schools for the New York Daily News and was an editor at Inside Schools and The Investigative Fund, now called Type Investigations. Her work has appeared in local and national news outlets, including NBC News, The New York Times and The Washington Post. </p>

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name: Derek Kravitz
label: Muckrock
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  <p> Data and investigations editor Derek Kravitz works on MuckRock's accountability journalism projects with newsroom partners. Previously, he was the research director at ProPublica and a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press and The Washington Post. Kravitz is a two-time Livingston Award finalist and he has also been apart of three teams that have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:derek@muckrock.com">derek@muckrock.com</a>. </p>

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name: Betsy Ladyzhets
label: MuckRock
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  <p> Betsy Ladyzhets is a science, health, and data journalist focused on COVID-19. She runs the COVID-19 Data Dispatch, a publication that provides news and resources on pandemic data. She's also a part-time journalism fellow at MuckRock's Documenting COVID-19 project, and a freelancer for outlets including Science News, The Atlantic, FiveThirtyEight, and Gothamist/WNYC. </p>

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name: Jennifer LaFleur
label: Center for Public Integrity
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  <p> Jennifer LaFleur is a senior editor at The Center for Public Integrity. She joined CPI from the Investigative Reporting Workshop. She also teaches at American University. </p>

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name: Will Lager
label: Reynolds Journalism Institute
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description:
  <p> William Lager is a multidisciplinary journalist bridging the spaces between journalism, data and the public through equitable collaborations, visual storytelling, audience engagement, product and design development as a consulting journalist, product developer and multidisciplinary editor for data, graphics and audience engagement. Lager's work may be explored at <a href="http://wlager.com">wlager.com</a>. Lager is currently the senior editor and project manager at the Reynolds Journalism Institute. </p>

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name: Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee
label: Los Angeles Times
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  <p> Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee is a data reporter on the Los Angeles Times Data Desk, where she has reported on groundwater depletion, election results and campaign finance. She was previously the data editor at Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering education across several cities and states. Gabrielle has a master’s degree in information design and data visualization from the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University. </p>

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name: Stephanie Lamm
label: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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  <p> Stephanie Lamm is a data reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She uses data analysis tools such as SQL, R, and Python to uncover stories that would otherwise remain hidden. She previously worked for the Dallas Morning News and the Houston Chronicle. She interned for the AJC in the summer of 2017. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. </p>

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name: Ren Larson
label: The Assembly
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  <p> Ren is a journalist with The Assembly, focusing on accountability of institutions, policies and people in North Carolina. Most recently, Ren analyzed Army court-martial data for stories with ProPublica+The Texas Tribune. She holds a master's degrees in public policy and international studies from the University of California-Berkeley. </p>

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name: Kristen Larson
label: Yahoo
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name: Paula Lavigne
label: ESPN
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description:
  <p>Paula Lavigne is an investigative reporter for ESPN, where she has reported on sexual assaults and athletes, gender equity, crime, sports business, athlete health care, and fan safety. She has a background in data journalism and has previously worked at newspapers in Dallas, Des Moines, and Tacoma, Wash.</p>

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name: Iris Lee
description: <p> Iris Lee is an assistant data and graphics editor at the Los Angeles Times. </p>
label: Los Angeles Times
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name: Tristan Lee
label: Bellingcat
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description:
  <p>Tristan Lee is a data scientist at Bellingcat whose work focuses on far-right and conspiracy theory networks online, with a particular interest in accelerationist neo-Nazi subcultures. His background is in computational imaging, and he holds a master’s degree in applied physics from the University of Oregon.</p>

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name: Jenny Lee
label: Google
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description:
  <p> Jenny is the lead data analyst with the Trends team at Google. She graduated from the University of California, Davis, with a bachelor’s degree in statistics and economics. Jenny helps people make sense of data and discover interesting stories through Trends. She loves analyzing search behaviors to find how people respond to events and breaking news as well as uncovering fun and unexpected insights. </p>

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name: Andrew Lehren
label: NBC News/City University New York
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name: Jason Leopold
label: Bloomberg News
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description:
  <p> Jason Leopold is an investigative reporter for Bloomberg News. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Leopold's FOIA work has been profiled in dozens of media outlets, including a front-page story in the NYT. TRAC identified Leopold as "the most active individual FOIA litigator in the United States today." In 2016, he was awarded the FOI award from IRE and was inducted into the National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame by Freedom Forum Institute. </p>

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name: Norm Lewis
label: University of Florida
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description:
  <p> Norm Lewis is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Florida, where he has been since getting his doctorate in 2007. Before that, he was a journalist for 25 years, ranging from editor of smaller dailies to The Washington Post financial desk. In addition to creating five data journalism courses at UF, he conducts statistics-based social science research into news culture for peer-reviewed journals. </p>

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name: Weihua Li
label: The Marshall Project
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description:
  <p>Weihua Li is a data reporter at The Marshall Project, where she uses data reporting to tell stories about the criminal justice system. She loves liberating data from terrible government websites, poking holes in crime data, and hanging out with her toddler.</p>

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name: Beryl Lipton
label: Electronic Frontier Foundation
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description:
  <p> Beryl Lipton is an investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation focused on government transparency and law enforcement surveillance technology. Beryl has extensive experience using freedom of information laws and large-scale public records campaigns in her research, and she enjoys sharing what’s she’s learned with others. Beryl is a board member for Boston’s Spare Change News and contributes to Gannett New York’s work accessing police disciplinary and other public safety records. </p>

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name: Zaneta Lowe
label: WREG
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description:
  <p> Zaneta Lowe is an award-winning, veteran broadcast journalist with more than two decades of experience. For the last 11 years, she’s worked at WREG-TV in Memphis, TN where she’s currently Daybreak/Noon Anchor &amp; Investigative Reporter. Zaneta’s work focuses on shining a light on problems, protecting families, and holding the powerful accountable. </p>

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name: Liz Lucas
label: IRE & NICAR
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description:
  <p> Liz is the Senior Training Director for IRE and an adjunct professor of data journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism. She previously worked as Data Editor for Kaiser Health News, as a data reporter for the Center for Public Integrity, and as the Director of Data Services for IRE. </p>

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name: William Lyon
label: Neo4j
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description:
  <p> William Lyon is a software developer at Neo4j where he also facilitates Neo4j's Data Journalism Accelerator Program. Prior to joining Neo4j, William worked as a software engineer for several startups building mobile apps, quantitative finance tools, and predictive API services. William holds a masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Montana and is the author of the book "Full Stack GraphQL" published by Manning. You can find him online at <a href="http://lyonwj.com">lyonwj.com</a> </p>

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name: Ilica Mahajan
label: The Marshall Project
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description:
  <p>Ilica Mahajan is a computational journalist at The Marshall Project. She is a recovering software engineer who specializes in applying data science and distributed computing techniques to unlock the complexities of the criminal justice system. Most recently, she&#x27;s been working with the fantastic crew of the Cleveland &quot;Testify&quot; project, scraping and analyzing thousands of court records to glean insights into Cuyahoga County&#x27;s court system.</p>

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name: Edward Mahon
label: Spotlight PA
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description:
  <p> Ed Mahon is an investigative reporter for Spotlight PA, where he's covered addiction treatment, the opioid epidemic and the big business of medical marijuana cards. His reporting has earned national recognition from the Institute for Nonprofit News, the Online News Association and the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. He's worked in newsrooms across Pennsylvania, including as the state Capitol reporter for NPR affiliate stations. </p>

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name: Erin Mansfield
label: USA TODAY
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name: Willoughby Mariano
label: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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name: Adam Marshall
label: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
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  <p> Adam A. Marshall is a senior staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. His work includes litigation in federal and state courts and training journalists on government transparency. </p>

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name: José Martinez
label: The Connecticut Mirror
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  <p> José is a data reporter at the Connecticut Mirror. Before that, he spent a summer with The Wall Street Journal as an investigative data intern and held internships or fellowships with Texas Tribune, American Public Media Group, ProPublica, Bloomberg and the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. Born in El Salvador and raised in Houston, he graduated from the University of Texas with degree in journalism. </p>

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name: Paul McAdoo
label: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
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name: Josh McGhee
label: MindSite News
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description:
  <p> Josh McGhee is an investigative reporter at MindSite News covering the intersection of criminal justice and mental health with an emphasis on public records and data reporting. He’s previously reported at DNAinfo Chicago, WVON, the Chicago Reporter and most recently Injustice Watch. He serves as the secretary for the Chicago Chapter of the NABJ. </p>

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name: Caitlin McGlade
label: Arizona Republic
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description:
  <p> Caitlin is a data reporter on the Arizona Republic's investigative team, where she has primarily covered senior care failures, environmental problems and elections. She also teaches data journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. </p>

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name: Sean McMinn
label: POLITICO
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description:
  <p> Sean McMinn is the editor of data and graphics at POLITICO. His team specializes in covering policy and politics through a data-focused lens. Sean also teaches at Northwestern University's D.C. masters program. He was previously a data journalist at NPR and CQ Roll Call, and he is excited to see his country music and data journalism passions collide in Nashville! </p>

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name: Dhruv Mehrotra
label: WIRED
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description:
  <p> Dhruv Mehrotra (he/him) is an investigative data reporter for WIRED. He uses technology to find, build, and analyze datasets for storytelling. Before joining WIRED, he worked for the Center for Investigative Reporting and was a researcher at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. At Gizmodo, he was on a team that won an Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting for their story Prediction: Bias. Mehrotra is based in New York. </p>

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name: Jeremy Merrill
label: The Washington Post
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description:
  <p> Jeremy B. Merrill is a data reporter on the Washington Post's tech desk. He covers social media, crypto, ads/adtech and any shenanigans taking place via HTTPS. </p>

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name: Andrew Milligan
label: POLITICO
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description:
  <p> Andrew Milligan is a senior news apps developer at POLITICO, where he specializes in live election results and other interactive presentations, building both front-end displays and back-end data pipelines. He previously worked at the Associated Press. </p>

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name: Charles Minshew
label: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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description:
  <p> Charles Minshew leads the digital storytelling team (data and presentation) at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. At the AJC, he works with reporters to elevate both their data journalism and digital storytelling efforts. He was previously on the IRE staff from 2017 until 2022. Favorite coding language: R. </p>

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name: Jasmine Mithani
label: The 19th*
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name: Kelly Molloy
label: Domain Tools
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description:
  <p> Kelly Molloy collects big data and teaches others how to use it. She has extensive experience creating and managing anti-abuse tools, from spamtraps to passive DNS to DNSBLs. </p>

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name: Laura Moscoso
label: IRE & NICAR
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description:
  <p> Laura Moscoso is a Puerto Rican journalist and training director for IRE &amp; NICAR. Laura is a professor focusing on data, visualization tools and media literacy. </p>

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name: Annique Mossou
label: Bellingcat
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description:
  <p> Annique Mossou is a trainer and researcher for Bellingcat. Previously she was part of an OSINT-team of the Dutch National Police, where she specialised in online jihadist propaganda. At Bellingcat, she focuses on the world of mis- and disinformation, conspiracies and Ukraine. </p>

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name: Maggie Mulvihill
label: Boston University
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description:
  <p>Maggie Mulvihill is an award-winning data and investigative journalist, a former media lawyer, veteran journalism educator and news entrepreneur. She serves on the New England First Amendment Coalition board and the Reporter&#x27;s Committee for Freedom of the Press Steering Committee.</p>

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name: Emilie Munson
label: Albany Times Union
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description:
  <p>Emilie Munson is a data reporter for the Times Union. She previously covered federal politics in Washington, D.C. for the Times Union and Hearst Connecticut Media. Emilie also has worked as a state capitol reporter for Hearst Connecticut Media and as an education reporter for the Greenwich Time.</p>

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name: Joe Murphy
label: NBC News
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description:
  <p>NBC News data editor. Back-whens: NY Daily News, Denver Post, Medill. Oregonian born and raised.</p>

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name: Sean Mussenden
label: University of Maryland
cog_details: []
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name: Justin Myers
label: Associated Press
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description:
  <p> Justin Myers is the data editor at The Associated Press, where he supports a team of data journalists distributed around the United States. Previously, he worked on newsroom tools, interactive graphics and data reporting projects for the AP, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle of Philanthropy and the PBS NewsHour. He holds degrees in both engineering and journalism, and he lives in Chicago. </p>

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name: Anu Narayanswamy
label: The Washington Post
cog_details: []
description:
  <p>Anu Narayanswamy is the deputy data director at the Washington Post. She works with data reporters covering climate, national politics and the D.C. metro area.</p>

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name: Susie Neilson
label: San Francisco Chronicle
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Susie Neilson is a data reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle focused on housing and criminal justice. Previously, she has worked for Business Insider, NPR, The Center for Investigative Reporting and several other publications. She lives in Oakland, where she enjoys regular sightings of the official city bird and her favorite animal: the Black-crowned night heron. </p>

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name: Huyen Nguyen
label: Kansas State University
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Huyen Nguyen (Ph.D., Ohio University, 2020) is a teaching assistant professor at Kansas State University. She teaches courses in immersive storytelling, interactive journalism design, creative design and content distribution. Her research interests include media economics and visual communication. Her works have been presented at many national and regional conferences in America. Prior to entering academia, she was a magazine reporter and editor in Vietnam. </p>

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name: Janelle O'Dea
label: Center for Public Integrity
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Janelle O'Dea started recently as a data reporter for the Center for Public Integrity after five years in the same role at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She likes Python, pandas and cats. </p>

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name: Paul Overberg
label: The Wall Street Journal
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  <p> Paul Overberg is a data reporter at The Wall Street Journal and a member of its investigative team. The 2020 census isn't the first he's covered -- or the second. He has organized and led many IRE/NICAR panels, classes and seminars to help journalists understand demographic data. He also has taught at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism and served as a senior fellow for the Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California. </p>

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name: Andrew Pantazi
label: The Tributary
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  <p>Andrew Pantazi is an editor at The Tributary, a nonprofit investigative news outlet in Jacksonville, Fla. He previously worked as a reporter at The Florida Times-Union and as a union organizer with the NewsGuild. His work has led to the ouster of Jacksonville’s sheriff, sparked grand jury investigations of public officials and resulted in a federal lawsuit that threw out Jacksonville’s racially gerrymandered council districts.</p>

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name: Eesha Pendharkar
label: Education Week
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  <p> Eesha Pendharkar is a reporter for Education Week covering race and opportunity in schools across the country. She has previously worked for daily newspapers in Massachusetts and Maine as a general assignment and education reporter and also specializes in data reporting. </p>

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name: Veronica Penney
label: Colorado Public Radio
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  <p> Veronica Penney is a data reporter on Colorado Public Radio's investigations team. She previously worked at The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Investigations and the Miami Herald. </p>

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name: John Perry
label: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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description:
  <p> John Perry is the technical director of Atlanta Journal-Constitution data journalism team. Before coming to the AJC, he was a senior fellow at the Center for Public Integrity and database editor at The Oklahoman in Oklahoma City. </p>

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name: Scott Pham
label: Independent journalist
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  <p> Scott Pham is an investigative data reporter whose work has appeared in BuzzFeed News and Reveal/Center for Investigative Reporting. He also teaches data journalism at the City University of New York. </p>

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name: Cheryl Phillips
label: Big Local News
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name: Lisa Pickoff-White
label: The California Reporting Project
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description:
  <p> Lisa Pickoff-White is an award-winning investigative data reporter working with the California Reporting Project to turn use-of-force and police misconduct records into data and impactful reporting. </p>

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name: Aron Pilhofer
label: The Tiny News Collective/Temple University
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description:
  <p> Aron Pilhofer is the James B. Steele Chair in Journalism Innovation at Temple. His work focuses on new business models, digital transformation and innovation in news. Pilhofer was Executive Editor, Digital, and interim Chief Digital Officer at the Guardian in London. He has been a reporter and editor at The New York Times, The Center for Public Integrity and Gannett. Pilhofer co-founded The Tiny News Collective, <a href="http://DocumentCloud.org">DocumentCloud.org</a> and Hacks &amp; Hackers. </p>

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name: Rachel Polansky
label: WANF CBS Atlanta News First
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description:
  <p> Rachel is an Edward R. Murrow and Emmy award-winning investigative reporter at CBS in Atlanta, Ga. Rachel is also an adjunct journalism professor at UMKC. Rachel’s investigations have uncovered systemic failures, changed state laws and even led to indictments. Rachel’s work backs up her pledge to be a journalist who makes a difference and holds the powerful accountable. Prior to Atlanta, Rachel worked as an investigative reporter in Ohio, Florida and New York. </p>

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name: Dylan Purcell
label: The Philadelphia Inquirer
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description:
  <p> Dylan Purcell is a data reporter on the Philadelphia Inquirer's investigative team. He has covered a range of issues from fatal shootings by police, environmental hazards in public schools and newborn deaths following heart surgery at a for-profit hospital. He shared in the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist in 2019 and 2022. </p>

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name: Sara Rafsky
label: The New York Times
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description:
  <p> Sara Rafsky is the inaugural Safety and Security Fellow at The New York Times. She has worked as a researcher at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, the MIT Open Documentary Lab, Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists. Sara also worked at Doc Society as the Safe + Secure Executive, an initiative on mitigating risks faced by documentary filmmakers. She was a producer of the Netflix Original documentary, "The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo," which won the 2021 Ariel Award (the Mexican equivalent of the Academy Awards) for Best Documentary. Previously, she was a Google News Lab Fellow at Witness and a Fulbright Fellow in Bogotá, Colombia. Sara has a BA from Georgetown University and an MS in Comparative Media Studies from MIT. </p>

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name: Peniley Ramirez
label: Futuro Investigates/Futuro Media
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description:
  <p> Emmy-award-winning investigative journalist, Peniley is the Executive Producer of Futuro Investigates and Special Projects at Futuro Media. Before, she worked as an investigative correspondent for Univision. Her reporting has led to government investigations in Latin America and the U.S. She worked on global investigative projects, such as "Panama Papers," and “Pandora Papers.” She graduated with a Master of Arts in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia University. </p>

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name: Mike Reicher
label: The Seattle Times
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description:
  <p> Mike Reicher is an investigative reporter for The Seattle Times. Previously, he was a data reporter on the I-Team at the Tennessean, where his stories exposed safety lapses that led to worker deaths in Nashville’s booming construction industry and showed how attorneys earned millions while wrongfully denying disability claims. He twice won the top investigative award from the Tennessee Associated Press. Mike is a graduate of UCLA and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. </p>

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name: Mike Reilly
label: University of Illinois Chicago
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description:
  <p> Mike is the founder and editor of <a href="http://JournalistsToolbox.org">JournalistsToolbox.org</a>, and he is a newsroom trainer who has taught 12,000 journalists and educators in 41 states over the past seven years. He has taught data journalism full-time at the University of Illinois-Chicago for six years. A former reporter at the Los Angeles Times and web editor at the Chicago Tribune, Mike served for 13 years as a faculty member at Northwestern, Arizona State University and DePaul University. </p>

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name: Cecilia Reyes
label: Insider
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description:
  <p>Cecilia Reyes is a bilingual reporter on Insider&#x27;s investigations team. Previously, Reyes worked at the Chicago Tribune. Her work on a series, &quot;The Failures Before the Fires&quot; exposed how government officials in Chicago were warned about safety issues in dozens of homes before fires killed 61 adults and children. This reporting was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in 2022.</p>

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name: Adam Rhodes
label: IRE & NICAR
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description:
  <p> Adam M. Rhodes is a first-generation Cuban American journalist whose work primarily focuses on queer people and the criminal legal system. Their recent work has examined HIV treatment access in Puerto Rico, HIV criminalization in Illinois, and a homophobic capital murder trial in the state. Rhodes was most recently a staff writer and social justice reporter at the Chicago Reader, and they have been published in outlets including BuzzFeed News and The Washington Post. </p>

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name: Steven Rich
label: The Washington Post
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description:
  <p> Steven Rich is a database editor for investigations at The Washington Post. He was a member of IRE's board of directors from 2015-2021. </p>

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name: Alex Richards
label: Syracuse University
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  <p> Alex Richards is an assistant professor at Syracuse University. Prior to his current role, he was the deputy investigations editor at NerdWallet and has been a reporter and editor at news organizations including the Chicago Tribune, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Las Vegas Sun. He's also a former IRE training director. </p>

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name: Janet Roberts
label: Reuters
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  <p>Janet Roberts heads the data journalism team at Reuters and has been wringing stories out of data since she was a student in Phil Meyer’s journalism class at UNC. Before Reuters, she was a data journalist at the New York Times and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. She co-edited a data-driven Reuters project that won the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism in 2020 and has been a finalist herself for the same prize.</p>

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name: Cam Rodriguez
label: Chalkbeat
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description:
  <p> Cam Rodriguez is a data + graphics reporter at Chalkbeat. In the past, she's been a Dow Jones intern at USA TODAY, a 2020 elections fellow at the Detroit Free Press and she chased down historical oddities with WTTW/Chicago PBS, in addition to freelancing with Voice of San Diego and South Side Weekly. A recent grad-school grad, Cam was also managing editor at 14 East, DePaul University's award-winning online student magazine based in Chicago. </p>

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name: Libby Rogers
label: BBC News
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description:
  <p> Libby is a data scientist with BBC News. Recent projects include uncovering the extent of the NHS dentistry shortage in the UK, heat hazards and the latest NHS winter tracker. Libby also supports the BBC data journalism team technically with training and developing reusable tools and processes. </p>

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name: Inori Roy
label: The Local (Toronto)
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  <p> Inori Roy is a Toronto-based feature writer and associate editor at The Local magazine. She specializes in data-driven investigations exposing inequities, particularly across race, class and geographic lines, and driven by policy choices. Her work has previously appeared in the Toronto Star, environmental outlets Unearthed and The Narwhal, and the CBC. </p>


name: Naveena Sadasivam
label: Grist
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description:
  <p> Naveena Sadasivam is a staff writer covering the environment, energy, and climate change at Grist. She previously covered environmental issues at the Texas Observer, InsideClimate News, and ProPublica. She is a Livingston award finalist and has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Society of Environmental Journalists, and the Radio Television Digital News Association for her reporting. </p>

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name: Aarushi Sahejpal
label: American University/Investigative Reporting Workshop
cog_details: []
description:
  <p> Aarushi Sahejpal is data editor at the Investigative Reporting Workshop and an adjunct professor of quantitative methods and data journalism at American University's School of Communication. </p>

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name: Robert L. Santos
label: U.S. Census Bureau
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description:
  <p>Rob Santos is the 26th director of the U.S. Census Bureau. His 40 year career includes serving in executive and technical positions in statistics and survey operations. He is also a champion of diversity, equity and inclusion. He was president of the American Statistical Association in 2021 and is an ASA Fellow. He was also the 2014 president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research and has received numerous awards over his career.</p>

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name: Niall Sargent
label: Noteworthy
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description:
  <p> Niall Sargent is an award-winning multimedia investigative reporter with Noteworthy, a community-led investigative journalism platform in Ireland, where he is focused on issues related to climate change, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. He holds an MA in Investigative Journalism from City University London and a Diploma in Online Journalism from Goldsmiths University in London. </p>

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name: Ben Schachtman
label: WHQR
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description:
  <p> Ben Schachtman is a journalist and editor with a focus on local government accountability. He began reporting for Port City Daily in the Wilmington area in 2016 and took over as managing editor there in 2018. He’s a graduate of Rutgers College and later received his master's degree from New York University and his PhD from State University New York-Stony Brook, both in English Literature. He loves spending time with his wife and playing rock 'n' roll very loudly. </p>

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name: Hilke Schellmann
label: New York University
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name: Zoe Schumacher
label: Kansas State University
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description:
  <p> I am a sophomore in Marketing and Graphic Design at Kansas State University. As the Page Design Chief for the Collegian, I communicate our stories to our students through interesting, compelling design and artwork. </p>

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name: Libby Seline
label: San Antonio Express-News
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description:
  <p> Libby Seline is a data visualization reporter for the San Antonio Express-News and Houston Chronicle. Before coming to San Antonio, she attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and worked for The New York Times, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Lincoln Journal Star. </p>

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name: Ryan Serpico
label: San Antonio Express-News
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description:
  <p>Ryan Serpico is a graphics reporter for the San Antonio Express-News. He specializes in creating quick-turn data stories and helping other journalists with their data-driven stories. He builds tools for the newsroom that take advantage of generative AI — like GPT-3 — in a safe and responsible manner. He graduated from the University of Florida in 2018. He is thankful to all those who helped him get this far. Follow him on Mastodon: @ryan@ryanserpi.co</p>

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name: Naël Shiab
label: CBC
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description:
  <p> Naël Shiab is the senior data producer for CBC/Radio-Canada. He uses his programming skills to answer questions of public interest with data. He loves to create digital interactive experiences, especially immersive 3D dataviz. Naël is also the creator and maintainer of the open-source library simple-data-analysis (<a href="http://github.com/nshiab/simple-data-analysis">github.com/nshiab/simple-data-analysis</a>). For more, including his portfolio, visit <a href="http://naelshiab.com">naelshiab.com</a>. </p>

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name: Sara Silver
label: Quinnipiac University
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description:
  <p>Sara Silver is Abelson professor of business journalism at Quinnipiac University and trains newsrooms to follow the money. She covered the implosion of telecom equipment giants for The Wall Street Journal. Her award-winning series for the Financial Times kept Mexico’s would-be Evita from diverting charity to her campaign to succeed her husband as president. Silver covered Mexico and New York for The Associated Press and was a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia.</p>

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name: Jeremy Singer-Vine
label: The Data Liberation Project
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description:
  <p> Jeremy Singer-Vine runs the Data Liberation Project and writes Data Is Plural, a weekly newsletter. </p>

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name: Gunita Singh
label: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
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description:
  <p> Gunita is an attorney at RCFP where she litigates against state and federal agencies using freedom of information laws and helps reporters with records requests. She has co-authored two publications analyzing the role of news media in providing information about COVID-19. Gunita was previously an attorney at Property of the People, a DC-based FOIA operation. She received her J.D. from Georgetown and serves on the board of LION Publishers. </p>

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name: Barnaby Skinner
label: Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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description:
  <p> I manage the visuals department with data journalists, visuals journalists, software developers and OSINT reporters of the leading Swiss daily NZZ. Before that I built a team of data journalists and data scientists for Tamedia, another large Swiss publisher. I regularly teach data literacy skills and speak about digital transformation and the disruption of the news industry. </p>

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name: Jonathan Soma
label: Columbia University
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description:
  <p> Jonathan Soma is Knight Chair of Data Journalism at Columbia University, where he directs both the Data Journalism MS and the summer intensive Lede Program. His courses there cover everything from basic Python and analysis to ai2html and machine learning. When Soma isn't boring his students to tears he's probably rescuing cats. </p>

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name: Megan Squire
label: Southern Poverty Law Center
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description:
  <p> Dr. Megan Squire is deputy director for data analytics and OSINT at the Southern Poverty Law Center. As a computer scientist, she applies her background in data science and cybersecurity to track and expose networks of hate and extremism online. </p>

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name: Stephen Stock
label: CBS News and Stations
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description:
  <p> Stephen Stock serves as national investigative correspondent for CBS News and Stations. Prior to joining CBS News, Stephen was a founding member of NBC Bay Area’s 15-member investigative unit. He also helped build investigative teams in Miami and Orlando. He teaches not only at IRE but at universities around the country. He’s won just about every broadcast journalism award including a Peabody, du-Pont, national SPJ, three Murrow, six Assoicated Press awards and 18 regional Emmys. </p>

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name: Stephannie Stokes
label: WABE
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description:
  <p> Stephannie Stokes is a journalist covering housing and inequality at the Atlanta NPR affiliate, WABE 90.1 FM. In her investigations, she’s revealed how predatory investors strip wealth from Black homeowners in Atlanta’s fast-appreciating neighborhoods, and she’s spent a year following tenants in a federally-subsidized housing complex with some of the worst conditions in the city. This past year, she joined the inaugural class of Data-Driven Reporting Project awardees. </p>


name: Jan Strozyk
label: Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
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description:
  <p>Jan is OCCRP&#x27;s senior data editor and co-head of the Research &amp; Data team. He coordinates data analysis and research and works on data-driven investigations.</p>

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name: Samantha Sunne
label: Independent journalist
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  <p> Samantha Sunne is a freelance journalist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is currently a ProPublica Local Reporting Fellow at WVUE, and she recently published her first book, “Data + Journalism: A Story-Driven Approach to Learning Data Reporting." </p>

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name: Andrea Suozzo
label: ProPublica
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  <p>Andrea Suozzo is a news apps developer at ProPublica, where she works on Nonprofit Explorer, builds databases and does reporting. In her free time, she runs, reads, sews, knits and plays the fiddle.</p>

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name: Aadit Tambe
label: The Washington Post
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description:
  <p> Aadit Tambe works on the news design team at The Washington Post. He builds interactive stories to explain the news visually. Previously, he was a fellow at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland, and has interned at NBC News on the data and graphics team. </p>

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name: James Thomas
label: The New York Times
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  <p> James Thomas is a software engineer on the Interactive News team at The New York Times. He often works on media-rich projects that involve reader-generated content, and works closely with editors early in the conception of stories that use the digital tools we build on INT. His reporting often examines our cultural habits around music, movement and public space. </p>

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name: Sarah Kate Thomas
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name: Tisha Thompson
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name: Mike Tigas
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  <p>Mike Tigas is the Lead Product Developer (DevOps + Security) at ProPublica. He previously worked on news applications. Outside of ProPublica he is a core contributor to the Tor Project, working on censorship-circumventing mobile apps. He was an adjunct instructor at New York University&#x27;s Studio20 digital journalism program and was a 2013 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow. On Mastadon: @mtigas@mastodon.social</p>

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name: Matt Topic
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  <p>Matt Topic is a media and transparency attorney. He has litigated hundreds of state and federal FOIA cases on behalf of journalists and others.</p>

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name: Mago Torres
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  <p>Torres is an investigative journalist and data editor specializing in research and project leadership. She has been part of OpenNews as Research Project Director and, until recently, was the data editor at the Latin American Center for Investigative Reporting. Torres was part of the ICIJ’s investigations Pandora Papers, FinCEN Files, Luanda Leaks, and the Pulitzer prize-winning Panama Papers. She is a proud JSK Fellow Alumni, and she has a Ph.D. in Humanistic Studies.</p>

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name: Mc Nelly Torres
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  <p> Mc Nelly Torres is an award-winning investigative journalist and editor at the Center for Public Integrity where she leads a team investigating inequality. Previously, Torres worked as an investigative producer for NBC6 in Miami and co-founder of <a href="http://FCIR.org">FCIR.org</a>. Throughout her career, Torres has worked for numerous newspapers across the country including the Sun-Sentinel and the San Antonio Express-News. Torres was the first Latina to be elected to the IRE board of directors. </p>

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name: Katie Townsend
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  <p> Katie Townsend is Deputy Executive Director and Legal Director at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (<a href="http://www.rcfp.org">www.rcfp.org</a>), a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. She oversees the litigation, amicus, and other legal work of RCFP attorneys, and represents the Reporters Committee, news organizations, and individual journalists, including documentary filmmakers, in court access, freedom of information, and other First Amendment and press freedom matters. </p>

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name: Andrew Ba Tran
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name: Serdar Tumgoren
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name: Kevin Uhrmacher
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  <p> Kevin Uhrmacher is an assignment editor on The Washington Post's Graphics team. He oversees visual stories relating to politics, including elections, public policy, abortion access and other national coverage. He joined The Post as a news design and graphics intern in 2014 and spent six years as a graphics reporter. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill. </p>

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name: Shlomo Urbach
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  <p> Urbach is a senior software engineer with a diverse technological background who has been at Google for 15 years. In the past few years, he has worked on tools for investigative journalists. Urbach is the technical lead for the Pinpoint Extract Structured Data tool, and he is a huge fan of investigative journalism. </p>

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name: Maddy Varner
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  <p>Maddy Varner is an investigative data journalist at The Markup, where she extracts datasets from public documents and databases and analyzes them to tell stories about how technology impacts areas like labor, education and politics. Prior to The Markup, she was a researcher at ProPublica, where she was on a team that won a Loeb Award for Beat Reporting in 2017 for “Monetizing Hate,” a series of stories that examined Facebook’s ad practices.</p>

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name: Aria Velasquez
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  <p>Aria Velasquez is a freelancer currently based in Atlanta, soon to be based in Chicago. She works full-time as a newsletter strategist at Reckon. Outside of her full-time job, Aria&#x27;s professional interests include audio and local news. Setting aside work entirely, she enjoys rotating through any number of Real Housewives franchises, cooking, knitting and listening to audiobooks or podcasts. You can find her on Instagram @aria.snaps.</p>

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name: AJ Vicens
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name: Lam Thuy Vo
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name: Evan Wagstaff
label: San Francisco Chronicle
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  <p> Evan Wagstaff is the director of newsroom engineering for Hearst Newspapers' DevHub, a team of developer journalists who create storytelling tools for local newspapers across the country. </p>

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name: Matt Waite
label: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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  <p>Matt Waite is a journalism professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who teaches courses in data analysis and visualization. In 2011, he founded the Drone Journalism Lab, where he and his students have used drones to report news in six countries. From 2007-2011, he was a programmer/journalist for the St. Petersburg Times where he developed the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact. Before that, he was an award-winning investigative reporter for the Times.</p>

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name: Lucia Walinchus
label: The Ohio Center for Journalism, Eye On Ohio
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  <p> Lucia Walinchus, Esq. is the Executive Director at Eye on Ohio. She was a 2016 Fulbright Berlin Capital Program Scholar, has been featured as a guest speaker on CNN and is a contracted freelancer for the New York Times and the Washington Post. Her work has previously been recognized as the Best Investigative Reporting in Ohio, the Best Data Journalism in Ohio, and the Best Public Service Journalism. </p>

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name: Todd Wallack
label: WBUR
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description:
  <p> Darla Cameron is the managing editor for visual journalism for The Texas Tribune. She works with multidisciplinary teams to elevate the visual storytelling and reach audiences across Texas. </p>

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name: Simone Weichselbaum
label: NBC News
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  <p> Simone Weichselbaum is a national investigative reporter for NBC News, focusing on local and federal law enforcement issues. She previously was a police reporter for The Marshall Project, the New York Daily News and the Philadelphia Daily News. She holds a graduate degree in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. </p>

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name: Ben Welsh
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  <p>Ben Welsh is the news applications editor at Reuters. He is also a fellow at the DePaul University Center for Journalism Integrity &amp; Excellence.</p>

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name: John West
label: The Wall Street Journal
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  <p> John West reports the news with code at The Wall Street Journal, where his work has won multiple awards and where he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. He holds an MFA in writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars and degrees in philosophy and music performance from Oberlin College and Conservatory. His first book, "Lessons and Carols," is forthcoming in May 2023. </p>

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name: K. Sophie Will
label: FiscalNote CQ Roll Call
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  <p> K. Sophie Will is CQ Roll Call's congressional committees reporter and Utah Investigative Journalism Project's Alicia Patterson fellow. Previously, she was the national parks reporter for the USA Today network through Report for America. The award-winning Utah native graduated from Boston University with bylines in the Deseret News, the Boston Globe, the Associated Press, Thomson Reuters, HuffPost, WGBH and more. </p>

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name: Phil Williams
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name: Derek Willis
label: University of Maryland
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  <p> Derek is a lecturer in data and computational journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and co-founder of OpenElections. He is an IRE member since 1995 and alumnus of lots of great news organizations. </p>

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name: Simon Willison
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name: Cody Winchester
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  <p> Cody was a newspaper reporter, data specialist and web developer before joining IRE as a training director in 2017. He became the organization's tech director in 2022. </p>

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name: Davis Winkie
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  <p> Davis Winkie is a senior reporter covering the Army for Military Times, specializing in accountability reporting, personnel issues and military justice. He joined Military Times in 2020. Davis studied history at Vanderbilt University and UNC-Chapel Hill, writing a master's thesis about how the Cold War-era Defense Department influenced Hollywood's WWII movies. </p>

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name: Evan Wyloge
label: Realtor.com
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description:
  <p> Evan Wyloge is a data journalist at <a href="http://Realtor.com">Realtor.com</a>, where he covers real estate trends. </p>

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name: Yanqi Xu
label: Flatwater Free Press
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description:
  <p> Yanqi Xu is a reporter at the Flatwater Free Press in Nebraska. She uses data to cover accountability stories and recently completed a project about nitrate contamination of groundwater in Nebraska. </p>

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name: Leon Yin
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description:
  <p> Leon Yin is an investigative data journalist at The Markup. He uses interdisciplinary methods and bespoke datasets to report on technology and monopolies. In 2022, he received a Gerald Loeb Award for the series "Amazon's Advantage." Before journalism, he was a research scientist at The Center for Social Media and Politics at New York University. Leon started his career writing Fortran scripts at NASA. </p>

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name: Aida Ylanan
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description:
  <p> Aida is a journalist at the Los Angeles Times. She works on the data and graphics desk, specializing in data analysis and visualization. A SoCal native, she graduated from UCLA, where she studied statistics and English. </p>

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name: Sabiha Zainulbhai
label: New America
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description:
  <p> Sabiha Zainulbhai joined New America's Future of Land and Housing program as a senior policy analyst in January 2021. Zainulbhai's work focuses on ensuring that housing and land use policy in the U.S. advances racial and economic justice. Zainulbhai holds a master of public policy degree from the Gerald R. Ford School at the University of Michigan and a BA from the George Washington University. </p>

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name: Emily Zentner
label: California Newsroom
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description:
  <p>Emily Zentner is the investigative data reporter for the California Newsroom focusing on climate change. She previously worked as a data reporter at Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, where she reported on wildfires, police handling of sexual assault cases, the COVID-19 pandemic and more.</p>

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name: Geoff Ziezulewicz
label: Military Times
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description:
  <p> Geoff has published FOIA-fueled investigations into the military services, and the Navy in particular, for the past five or so years with the Military Times, and he has written extensively about the military justice system. Before that, he cut his watchdog teeth at the Chicago Tribune and spent several years overseas earlier in his career covering the Arab Spring and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Geoff's guiding journalistic light is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. </p>


name: Nicole Vap
label: CBS News
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name: Natasha Senjanovic
label: Independent journalist
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description:
  <p> Natasha Senjanovic is an award-winning journalist covering vulnerable populations from a data- and trauma-informed perspective. She spent 15 years in Italy and since returning to the US has served as a host/reporter for Nashville Public Radio (2016-19), produced a Pulitzer Center-backed project (2021) and was a temporary editor with MPR News (2021-22). Her work has appeared on NPR, WPLN, APM, and MPR. She speaks four languages and her awards include a Regional Murrow. </p>

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name: Francisco Vara-Orta
label: IRE & NICAR
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description:
  <p>Francisco Vara-Orta brings 17 years of newsroom experience to his role as IRE&#x27;s first director of diversity and inclusion. Vara-Orta joined the IRE staff in February 2019 as a training director. While working as a trainer, he has conducted sessions on managing data and investigative reporting for journalists across the United States and internationally. He has worked for a variety of online and print publications, including Chalkbeat, Education Week, the San Antonio Express-News, Austin Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal and the Los Angeles Times. He earned a master’s degree in investigative/data journalism at the University of Missouri and a bachelor’s degree from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio.</p>

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name: Emilia Ruzicka
label: Stacker
cog_details: []
description:
  <p>Emilia Ruzicka is a data journalist and designer. They currently live in Washington, D.C. and work for Stacker. Throughout their career, Emilia has worked for print news, radio stations, and digital media organizations to produce both written and multimedia stories with a focus on data-driven narratives. To learn more, please visit emiliaruzicka.com.</p>

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name: A.J. Lagoe
label: KARE-TV
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description:
  <p>A.J. Lagoe is an investigative reporter for KARE-TV in Minneapolis. His data-driven reporting routinely leads to criminal convictions and legislative hearings and has prompted numerous new federal and state laws. A.J. is a 2x IRE Award winner and has received many of journalism’s other highest honors including the George Polk, Peabody, National Murrow, and four Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards.</p>

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name: Erin Petenko
label: VT Digger
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description:
  <p>Erin is the data and graphics reporter for VTDigger, bringing Vermont’s stories to life with data. She&#x27;s also worked as a data reporter for NJ.com.</p>

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name: Donate a book to support literacy for Nashville kids
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  <p>IRE is proud to partner with local charity Book&#x27;em to help share the joy and value of reading with low-income youth in the Nashville area.</p>
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  <p>Learn more at <a href="bookem-kids.org/give-books" target="_blank">bookem-kids.org/give-books</a></p>
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  <p>Donate books online by clicking <a href="https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1CCZN1XCLBVUA?ref_=wl_share" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>


name: Arijit Sen
label: The Dallas Morning News
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description:
  <p>Arijit (Ari) Sen, is a computational journalist on the investigative team at The Dallas Morning News. He uses the tools of data science to investigate technology and the criminal justice system. Sen has a master&#x27;s degree in journalism and a certificate in applied data science from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor&#x27;s in journalism from UNC Chapel Hill.</p>

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name: Lucio Villa
label: The Washington Post
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name: David Herzog
label: University of Missouri/IRE
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description:
  <p>David Herzog is a veteran investigative reporter, data journalist, and educator. He&#x27;s a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he serves as the director of data services and research for IRE.</p>

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name: Suhail Bhat
label: THE CITY
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description:
  <p>Suhail is THE CITY’s data reporter, responsible for bringing numbers to life. Previously, he was a data and graphics reporter at Louisville Public Media, where he covered the Ohio Valley and received the “Best Use of Data” award for his COVID-19 coverage from the Society of Professional Journalists, Louisville. Suhail is an engineer turned journalist, a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, and a former Reuters News correspondent.</p>

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name: Julie Christie
label: Resolve Philly
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description:
  <p>Julie is the Director of Data and Special Projects at Resolve Philly where she focuses on local government accountability, foster care, and supporting more than 29 Philly newsrooms with their data journalism. She’s passionate about pasta, solutions journalism, early career development, and data ethics.</p>

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name: Andrew Ford
label: Arizona Republic
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description:
  <p>Andrew Ford is an investigative reporter for the Arizona Republic. He recently published a narrative investigation on a chain of clinics that was quoted by the U.S. Department of Justice in a complaint against the company. Learn more at www.AndrewFordNews.com, @AndrewFordNews. Ford is happy to take questions and partner on stories: aford@arizonarepublic.com.</p>


name: Amir Khafagy
label: Documented
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description:
  <p>Amir Khafagy is an award-winning New York City-based journalist. He is currently a labor reporter with Documented as a Report for America corps member as well as a Type Investigations Ida B. Wells Fellow.</p>

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name: Caitlin Augustin
label: DataKind
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description:
  <p>Caitlin Augustin is DataKind&#x27;s Vice President, Product and Programs. In this role, Caitlin is responsible for delivering DataKind&#x27;s core offerings, ensuring that high quality, impactful data science interventions are created in partnership with social sector leaders. Prior to DataKind, Caitlin worked as a research scientist at a digital education company and as an engineering professor at NYU. Caitlin holds a BSIE and a PhD from the University of Miami.</p>

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name: Linly Lin
label: Bloomberg News
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description:
  <p>Linly Lin is a data journalist with Bloomberg News, now based in San Francisco. She enjoys being creative and leveraging technology to achieve journalistic goals.</p>

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name: Michael Biesecker
label: Associated Press
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description:
  <p>Michael Biesecker is a global investigative reporter for The Associated Press, based in Washington, D.C. He reports on a wide range of topics, including human conflict, climate change, political corruption and deaths in government custody. Over the years, Biesecker’s investigations have led directly to legal reforms and criminal convictions. He also teaches graduate courses in investigative journalism and climate reporting at Georgetown University.</p>

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name: Tony Gonzalez
label: Nashville Public Radio
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description:
  <p>Tony Gonzalez oversees investigations and special projects at WPLN News and produces the Curious Nashville podcast. He’s worked in print, radio, and podcasting and has long been a mentor to collegiate and early-career journalists. He strives to tell memorably weird stories.</p>

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name: AmyJo Brown
label: War Streets Media
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description:
  <p>AmyJo Brown’s work centers on the specific organizational challenges of doing good journalism at the local level. As an independent editor and founder of War Streets Media, she consults with news leaders on sustainability issues and editorial strategies, and helps stand up new initiatives and develop talent.</p>
  <p>Recent clients have included the American Press Institute, Spotlight PA, and the Texas Tribune, with project work related to<u><a href="https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/api-updates/api-launches-journalism-inclusion-index/" target="_blank"> diversity and inclusion efforts</a></u>, designing and facilitating<u><a href="https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2022/02/spotlight-pa-state-college-bureau-ajp-lenfest/" target="_blank"> stakeholder listening sessions</a></u>, and helping to manage<u><a href="https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2022/texas-2022-election-results/" target="_blank"> elections-related coverage</a></u>. Other recent notable work includes developing and launching the<u><a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/627c29c0bcb7f5543e9f8ed1/t/627d35687db3d00c1c66b432/1652372841540/072621_2020_PMP_report.pdf" target="_blank"> Pittsburgh Media Partnership</a></u>, a grant-funded collaborative of about two dozen local news organizations, and leading it through its first two years as its members grappled with the business challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
  <p>A veteran journalist with a background in local government and investigative reporting, her focus on improving processes and changing systems is rooted in the experience she gained in the first half of her career working as a reporter and editor at local news publications of all sizes in widely different settings. Her work was then more fully informed by lessons learned designing and leading editorial and revenue strategies, in various capacities within those local newsrooms.</p>
  <p>AmyJo is currently a 2022-2023 Knight Lab Professional Fellow at Northwestern University’s Medill School. She has been a member of the Democracy Fund’s<u><a href="https://localnewslab.org/2022/01/19/meet-the-ecosystem-builders-a-unique-group-of-leaders-transforming-local-news/" target="_blank"> Ecosystem Builders</a></u> cohort since 2021, and was part of the 2019 cohort of<u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp3T7O9Aqyc" target="_blank"> Take the Lead: 50 Women Can Change the World in Journalism</a></u>. She is also a dedicated journalism teacher: An experienced adjunct instructor at the university level who frequently hosts workshops for professional journalists and volunteers at summer programs geared toward high school students.</p>

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name: Mike Stucka
label: independent journalist
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description:
  <p>Mike Stucka (he/him) set a personal record of more than 1 million words in a month sent to editors, because computers let you do repetitive stuff quickly. He has worked for a few hundred newspapers, built interdependent data pipelines to the XKCD 2054 standard, and failed to become the person his dog thinks he is. He is now Florida Man.</p>


name: Meghan Hoyer
label: The Washington Post
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name: Aaron Mendelson
label: Center for Public Integrity
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name: Tom Meagher
label: The Marshall Project
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name: NICAR 2023 tipsheets
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description:
  <p><a href="https://www.ire.org/training/conferences/nicar-2023/nicar-2023-tipsheets/" target="_blank">https://www.ire.org/training/conferences/nicar-2023/nicar-2023-tipsheets/</a></p>


