Before,
Most notably, I spent every-second of almost 2 years building some of the country’s most-trusted COVID-19 datasets for the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic, which became the backbone of federal, state, and local COVID-19 policy in the United States. Our work was used by government agencies, and in over 80,000 news reports and 2,000 academic articles, and was awarded the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Specialized Journalism Site, a Sigma Award for Data Journalism, and a New York University American Journalism Online Award for Best Data Visualization.
I’m also an alum of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Biden-Harris Administration, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, AppDynamics & Cisco Systems, Education Week, and a former 3-time intern at The Investigative Reporting Workshop.
I hold a BS in Data Science & International Studies, and a MS in Data Science, from American University, in Washington D.C, where I fell in love with mathematics and defied academic norms.
I was one of American University’s first BS Data Science graduates, where I took mostly graduate courses to complete my undergraduate degree. My master’s thesis (😅) used machine learning and mathematical models to detect inequalities in U.S. federal government data practices.
Right now,
I am the Professorial Lecturer of Computational & Quantitative Methods in the journalism program at American University’s School of Communication.
I am most proud of my students, who have gone on to work at companies, governments and newsrooms.