NICAR 2020 schedule

Doug Haddix is executive director of Investigative Reporters & Editors. He oversees training, conferences and services for 6,000 members worldwide. Previously, Haddix worked as an IRE training director, an assistant vice president at Ohio State University, director of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism and as an editor and reporter at newspapers in Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania. He earned a master's in journalism from Indiana University.

On Twitter: @DougHaddix

Denise Malan is IRE's Deputy Executive Director, overseeing all training programs, event logistics and the IRE Resource Center. She was a newspaper journalist for more than a decade, covering government, education, politics, the environment and more. After several years at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in Texas, she joined IRE in 2013 in a joint position with the Institute for Nonprofit News, helping newsrooms around the country use data in their reporting.

On Twitter: @DeniseMalan

Simone Weichselbaum is a staff writer at The Marshall Project, focusing on issues pertaining to federal law enforcement and local policing. She is also serves as the outlet's co-chair of diversity and inclusion. Previously, Simone was a cops reporter at the New York Daily News and the Philadelphia Daily News. She holds a graduate degree in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania.

On Twitter: @SimoneJwei

Cody is a training director at Investigative Reporters & Editors. Before joining IRE, he worked at newspapers in Texas, Nebraska and South Dakota.

Sarah Cohen is the Knight Chair in Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University. Previously, she worked as the editor of a data reporting team at The New York Times focused on long-term enterprise and investigative stories, and as a database editor for The Washington Post. Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting, the Goldsmith Prize and the IRE medal. She is a past president of IRE and served on the IRE board for eight years.

Ren Larson is a data journalist with the Arizona Republic, where she has worked on elections, environmental contamination, wildfires and immigration projects. In a previous life, she was an urban planner for the city of Austin, Texas, and a short-lived bike messenger in Beirut. Ren holds a master's degree in public policy and an M.A. in International Studies from the University of California Berkeley.

On Twitter: @renLarson_

Benjamin Lesser is a reporter and a deputy editor at Reuters News. He also teaches investigative reporting at the City University New York Graduate School of Journalism. Prior to joining Reuters he spent most of his career working in newspapers. He spent 12 years as an investigative/data reporter at The Record in New Jersey (2000-2006) and the New York Daily News (2006-2012).

Sean McMinn is the data editor on NPR's News Apps team. Based in Washington, D.C., McMinn writes and reports news stories for NPR.org, designs infographics, and develops software that helps journalists do their jobs.

On Twitter: @shmcminn

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 the University of North Carolina. Before Reuters, she worked at The New York Times, the St. Paul Pioneer-Press and the Wilmington Star-News. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism and the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.

On Twitter: @jersey_janet

Carolyn Thompson is a Canadian freelance journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her stories focus on displacement, human rights abuses and government corruption using tools such as public data, surveys and satellite imagery. She has reported for CBC, France 24, Al Jazeera, and The Washington Post, among others. She has also taught data journalism in Ghana, Kenya and Canada.

On Twitter: @caroethompson

Sandra Fish is a Colorado data journalist specializing in politics. She's done work for the Colorado Sun, Colorado Independent, OpenSecrets, ESPN, Colorado Public Radio and others. She also teaches data journalism at University of Colorado Boulder.

Denise Roth Barber has served as managing director of the National Institute On Money In Politics since 2010, after four years as research director and seven years as researcher. As managing director, she oversees the data acquisition, research and communications departments, and she oversees the writing of grant proposals and narratives. Prior, Denise was a community organizer with the Northern Plains Resource Council in eastern/central Montana and a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, Africa.

Ben Wieder is a data reporter in the McClatchy D.C. Bureau who has focused on political influence, government contracts and predatory lending. He worked previously at the Center for Public Integrity and Stateline and has also written for FiveThirtyEight, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Newsday.

On Twitter: @benbwieder

Ellen Gabler is an investigative reporter at The New York Times. Before joining the Times, she worked at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as a reporter and deputy investigations editor. A native of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Gabler is a graduate of Emory University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is a former IRE board member. @egabler

On Twitter: @egabler

Jodie is an investigative reporter with NBC4 in Washington and joined the IRE Board in 2019. Her work has changed laws regarding criminally-charged police officers, house stealing by sovereign citizens and misuse of a real estate law to hold up home sales. Jodie has been honored by the FBI Director and the head of Georgia's police training agency. She's earned an IRE Award for Innovation, an Alfred I. duPont award, 18 regional Emmys and several Murrow awards.

On Twitter: @jodienbc4

A.J. Lagoe is an investigative reporter for KARE11 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His reporting has led to criminal convictions, sparked numerous legislative hearings, prompted new federal and state laws and multiple Attorney General and Inspector General investigations. A.J. has earned many of journalism’s highest honors, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University, George Polk, IRE, National Headliner & Sigma Delta Chi awards.

On Twitter: @AJInvestigates

Hard to believe, but more than 35 years ago, Stephen began as a general assignment reporter in Roanoke, Virginia. Since then he’s covered everything from shuttle launches to hurricanes, presidents to popes. Now a founding member of the NBC Bay Area 17-member Investigative Unit, he’s won awards including a Peabody, a duPont, a national award from the Society of Proessional Journalists, three Murrow awards and six AP awards, 17 regional Emmys and a national Emmy nomination. He's taught at IRE for a decade. His work has changed laws & lives.

On Twitter: @stephenstocktv

Cary Aspinwall is a Dallas-based staff writer for The Marshall Project. Previously, she was an investigative reporter at The Dallas Morning News. In 2019, she won the Gerald Loeb Award for local reporting on a Texas company's history of deadly natural gas explosions and is a past Pulitzer finalist for her work exposing flaws in Oklahoma's execution process. She is a co-founder of The Frontier, a nonprofit devoted to investigative journalism in Oklahoma.

On Twitter: @caryaspinwall

Matt Dempsey is the data editor at the Houston Chronicle. He has worked on projects involving wildfires, state pensions and the chemical industry. His passion for public records frequently leads to disclosure of data from all levels of government. His series "Chemical Breakdown" won the 2016 IRE Innovation award and the National Press Foundation’s “Feddie” award. His work was a key part of the Chronicle’s Pulitzer Prize finalist entry for Breaking News.

Matt Topic leads Loevy & Loevy’s Freedom of Information Act practice. Among the media cases he has handled around the country, Matt has litigated hundreds of state and federal FOIA cases, often at reduced or no cost to clients, including the release of the the Laquan McDonald shooting video in Chicago; records from the Mueller investigation; Rahm Emanuel’s “private emails” about public business; and FBI records that helped lead to the exoneration of an innocent man.

Upton is Knight Chair in Data and Explanatory Journalism at Syracuse University. Her students have contributed to USA TODAY, CNN and other media. Her students also helped develop data for the Syrian Accountability Project, which tracks Syrian war casualties. Previously, she led an award-winning team of journalists and researchers at USA TODAY, covering data-driven topics including Medicare fraud, new economy jobs, mass killings and college football coaches’ salaries.

Anna Flagg is The Marshall Project's senior data reporter, covering criminal justice topics including immigration, crime, race, policing and incarceration. Her work has been recognized by the Global Editors Network’s Data Journalism Awards, the Society of News Design and the Information is Beautiful Awards, and she was a finalist for a 2019 Deadline Club Award.

On Twitter: @annaflagg

Sean McMinn is the data editor on NPR's News Apps team. Based in Washington, D.C., McMinn writes and reports news stories for NPR.org, designs infographics, and develops software that helps journalists do their jobs.

On Twitter: @shmcminn

Moiz Syed is a journalist, designer and developer on ProPublica's news apps team, covering the federal government. Previously he worked at The Intercept and the Wikimedia Foundation.

On Twitter: @moizsyed

Sophie Chou is a data reporter at ProPublica who covers issues related to immigration, voting and healthcare. She previously worked as a data journalist at Public Radio International and was a Google News fellow at the Pew Research Center. Sophie holds a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she researched misinformation and virality at the Media Lab, and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Columbia University.

On Twitter: @mpetitchou

Kristian Hernández is an investigative reporter with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He's covered politics for the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C., and immigration for the McAllen Monitor in South Texas. In 2014, Hernández was a courts reporter for Homicide Watch D.C. He is a first generation Mexican-American with a multimedia journalism degree from the University of Texas at El Paso and a masters in investigative reporting from American University.

On Twitter: @kristianreports

Tanvi Misra is staff writer at CQ Roll Call, covering immigration policy on the Hill — and beyond. Previously, she worked at CityLab when it was a website of the Atlantic. She wrote about about immigration, housing, economic inequality and criminal justice. Tanvi's work includes timely reportage, investigative data dives, award-winning features, in-depth policy analyses and essays. Her writing has also appeared in the Atlantic, NPR, and the BBC.

Jeff Adelson is a reporter for The Times-Picayune | The Advocate who has been covering politics, levees and disasters in the New Orleans area for more than a decade. When not stomping through flooded streets or hanging around City Hall, he works on data projects across the three Advocate papers, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning series "Tilting the Scales."

Journalist with nine years in the industry. Since 2015, she has worked as a data journalist for Centro de Periodismo Investigativo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She teaches workshops on data and data visualization for students and journalists.

On Twitter: @laurac_moscoso

Eric is a senior data reporter for Big Local News at Stanford University. Before that, he was on the data team at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. He also has been a news applications fellow at ProPublica and a data reporter at the Newark Star Ledger.

Samah Assad, an investigative journalist and producer who has won Murrow and Emmy Awards, specializes in data analysis, FOIA and digital interactivity with CBS Chicago's investigative unit. She previously produced with the investigative unit at ABC in Cleveland and worked as a crime reporter with the Morning Journal in Ohio. Her reporting focuses on uncovering systemic failures, including police misconduct, government corruption, lack of transparency and waste of taxpayer money.

On Twitter: @SAssadNews

Kate Martin is the lead investigative reporter for Carolina Public Press. Her work has led to the creation of four state laws and the resignation of several elected officials. Her deep analysis of years of North Carolina court records showed that fewer than 1 in 4 people charged with sexual assault are ever convicted of that or a lesser crime.

On Twitter: @Katereports

Joanna Piacenza is the senior data editor for Morning Consult, a global data intelligence company delivering insights on what people think in real-time. Her editorial focus on the intersection of business, media and politics produces compelling and viral data-driven stories. Prior to Morning Consult, she served as editor for PRRI across all of its publications, also writing and managing long-term public opinion projects.

On Twitter: @jpiacenza

Sarah A. Babcock is the director of policy and communications for the New Orleans Health Department, where she oversees emergency preparedness, environmental health, health policy and communications. She is the lead for all public health emergencies for the City of New Orleans and has overseen response to Ebola, Zika and now COVID-19. Ms. Babcock has a master's degree in public health from Tulane University and previously worked for the Florida Department of Health.

Anna Maria Barry-Jester is a senior correspondent with Kaiser Health News focusing on health disparities, public health and health care. She was previously a reporter with FiveThirtyEight, Univision and ABC News, and she has also been a freelance photographer and videographer. She lives in California.

On Twitter: @annabarryjester

Caroline Chen covers health care for ProPublica.

On Twitter: @CarolineYLChen

Chase Davis works on initiatives related to digital transformation and strategy at the Star Tribune in his hometown of Minneapolis. Previously, he ran the Interactive News desk at The New York Times and worked as as reporter and editor in Texas, Iowa and California. He also teaches a class in advanced data journalism at his alma mater, the University of Missouri.

On Twitter: @chasedavis

Anna Flagg is The Marshall Project's senior data reporter, covering criminal justice topics including immigration, crime, race, policing and incarceration. Her work has been recognized by the Global Editors Network’s Data Journalism Awards, the Society of News Design and the Information is Beautiful Awards, and she was a finalist for a 2019 Deadline Club Award.

On Twitter: @annaflagg

David McKie is an Ottawa-based, award-winning journalist and co-author of three journalism textbooks and two user guides. He teaches at Carleton University and the University of King's College, and he is a trainer with the Canadian Association of Journalists.

Kae Petrin covers transit, housing and miscellanea as a digital reporter for St. Louis Public Radio. They work across genres and mediums but spend much of their time with data analysis, public records and data visualization. Kae won the 2019 Missouri Broadcasters Association award for Convergent Media. They have a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a programming certificate from LaunchCode.

On Twitter: @kmaepetrin

Leila Haddou is an investigative reporter and former data journalism editor for The Times and Sunday Times in London. She has previously worked on investigations for the Financial Times and the Guardian and has an avid interest in how technology can aid deep-dive, public interest reporting.

On Twitter: @leilahaddou

Friedrich leads the data team at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a global network of investigative reporters focussed on large-scale corruption, abuses of power and money laundering. He coordinates the development of Aleph, a data analysis suite for cross-border anti-corruption investigations.

Margot Williams is an investigative researcher at The Intercept. She has pursued jihadists online and detainees who died in U.S. immigration detention, investigated Iraq war contractors and followed the money (and private jets and yachts) of mayors, governors, senators, oligarchs, presidential candidates and ex-presidents at ICIJ, NPR, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Since March 2017, Michael Beckel has worked as the research director at Issue One, a bipartisan advocacy organization in Washington, D.C., focused on government accountability, ethics and transparency issues. He previously worked as a reporter at both the Center for Public Integrity and the Center for Responsive Politics. Beckel’s exploits have taken him inside the U.S. Supreme Court multiple times, including for the oral arguments in Citizens United.

On Twitter: @mjbeckel

Robert is the research director at Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington (CREW), a watchdog group that promotes transparency and government ethics. Prior to joining CREW, Robert created OpenSecrets.org's program tracking the financial networks of dark money groups. In 2014, he won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for a series of investigative reports tracking dark money.

On Twitter: @RobertMaguire_

Anna Massoglia is a researcher at the Center for Responsive Politics. She runs OpenSecrets' Dark Money project, tracks digital and political advertising, investigates foreign influence, and helped launch the Foreign Lobby Watch project. Anna received her J.D. from the University of the District of Columbia School of Law in 2015 and holds dual B.A. degrees from North Carolina State University. She previously worked as an editor and research analyst at Bloomberg Tax.

On Twitter: @annalecta

Ko Bragg is a Mississippi-based investigative reporter with a focus on civil rights and juvenile justice. She is the lead reporter for FRONTLINE's upcoming interactive documentary about civil rights cold cases. She was previously a fellow at Reveal from the Center of Investigative Reporting, where she led an investigation that revealed overt racial bias in sentencing Mississippi kids as adults.

On Twitter: @keaux_

Olivia Winslow has been a reporter at Newsday for 26 years and currently covers demographic trends on Long Island, which involves analyzing Census data for insight into how Long Island’s population is changing. Winslow earned a bachelor's degree in print journalism from Howard University in Washington, D.C., and a master's degree in journalism from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

On Twitter: @newsollie

John Bones is managing director at SKUP, the Norwegian Foundation for Investigative Reporting. He is one of the Nordic data journalism pioneers, and he has been a journalist and editor at VG, the most read daily newspaper in Norway. He has education in history, statistics, Nordic languages and French, and he has realized trainings in Norway, Denmark, Latvia, Nepal, at VVOJ, at Dataharvest, and at NICAR, IRE and GIJ conferences.

Momi Peralta Ramos is the data journalism project manager at La Nación in Argentina. She is a computer scientist and MBA. Since 2011, she has led an open data project team called La Nación Data that includes developing data-driven journalism, open collaboration and open data in a country that only recently passed an FOI law. Besides data journalism, her interests are in applying technology and data science to discover and tell stories for social impact.

Paul Overberg is a data reporter at The Wall Street Journal and a member of its investigative team. He focuses on economic and demographic stories but helps reporters working on many subjects. He previously worked at USA TODAY, where he worked on projects that won the Philip Meyer Award for Precision Journalism and the National Headliner Award.

Gerson Vásquez is the Data Visualization Lead for the U.S. Census Bureau. In this role, he is working towards creating better understanding of demographic and socioeconomic data through interactive visualizations. Vásquez continues serving as a speaker on various census data topics, including 2020 Census planning and innovations using the Census API. He also specializes in census data on the Hispanic population within the U.S.

On Twitter: @uscensusbureau

MaryJo has been data editor at The Star Tribune in Minneapolis for five years. Previously, she had stints with the St. Paul Pioneer Press, USA Today, Digital First Media and Investigative Reporters & Editors. She started her career as a reporter at small papers in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

On Twitter: @MaryJoWebster

Matt Wynn is data reporter on USA Today's investigative team. His work has looked at copycat legislation, police and doctors who escape discipline and the medicalization of previously benign inconveniences. He is the former director of enterprise and investigations at Medpage Today and previously worked at the Omaha World-Herald.

Joe Yerardi is a data reporter at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. In this role, he's investigated everything from the influence that pharmaceutical companies wield over Medicaid programs' drug purchasing decisions to the environmental destruction that abandoned coal mines wreak on Appalachia. Before joining the Center, Joe covered a wide range of beats as the data reporter at inewsource in San Diego and as the data editor at the San Antonio Express-News.

On Twitter: @JoeYerardi

Marissa Evans is the social issues reporter for The Star Tribune in Minneapolis where she covers housing, health and equity issues. She was previously the health and human services reporter with The Texas Tribune, where she won an ONA Online Journalism Award in 2018 for her reporting on maternal mortality. Her reporting has appeared in Oprah Magazine, The Atlantic, Civil Eats, The Washington Post, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Kaiser Health News.

On Twitter: @marissaaevans

Jessica Williams has covered politics and policy in her native New Orleans for more than a decade. In her five years at The New Orleans Advocate, which recently merged with the Times-Picayune, she's covered the rise of New Orleans’ mixed-income housing developments and gentrification’s effects on the city's real estate market. Before The Advocate, she covered education for The Times-Picayune and The Lens, a nonprofit news initiative. Follow her @jwilliamsNOLA.

On Twitter: @jwilliamsNOLA

Jennifer is deputy chief of investigations for The Wall Street Journal. In that position, she helps manage a team of eight reporters, six data specialists, a news researcher, a graphics editor and a videographer. Most recently she managed a three-year, data-driven probe of derelict health care on Native American reservations. She also helped run the Journal's coverage of Trump's hush money, for which the team won the Pulitzer prize for national reporting.

Ellen Gabler is an investigative reporter at The New York Times. Before joining the Times, she worked at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as a reporter and deputy investigations editor. A native of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Gabler is a graduate of Emory University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is a former IRE board member. @egabler

On Twitter: @egabler

Sarah Rafique is an investigative producer at KTRK, the ABC-owned station in Houston, Texas, where she focuses on data reporting, visualization and telling investigations through compelling narratives. She previously worked as an investigative reporter at KXAN in Austin. Before that, she was a print reporter covering Fort Hood and West Texas. She's been recognized statewide and nationally for investigative reporting, breaking news and features.

On Twitter: @SarahRafique

Cindy Galli is chief of investigative projects for ABC News in New York. She oversees a team of award-winning network correspondents and producers specializing in longform investigations. Cindy serves on the board of directors for Investigative Reporters & Editors, where she has been a member since 1994. A longtime investigative producer, her work has garnered regional and national awards over 25 years of reporting. Bay Area native and UC Berkeley alum. Go Bears!

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein is an investigative journalist, author and assistant professor of journalism at Grand Valley State University. He is the founder of the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit organization that brings together investigative journalists, photographers and data scientists to conduct international investigations. A Fulbright Scholar, specialist and teacher, he has written or edited six books.

On Twitter: @JeffKLO

Dylan Purcell is a data reporter on the Philadelphia Inquirer’s investigative team. He’s covered topics ranging from fatal police shootings, widespread cheating on school proficiency tests and newborn deaths following heart surgery at a for-profit hospital. He shared in the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and was one of three reporters whose "Toxic City: Sick Schools" series was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the IRE watchdog innovation award.

Ronald Campbell is data editor for 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, California, with his wife, kids and cat. When not getting frustrated with databases, he gets frustrated hiking.

On Twitter: @campbellronaldw

Tim Henderson is demographics writer at Stateline, a news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts. He has been a reporter and database editor at The Miami Herald, Gannet Newspapers and the Cincinnati Enquirer. He refused to grow up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and remains a notorious New Mexican food snob and collector of Spanish curse words. This will be his fourth decennial census and he's starting to get it down.

Emily Hopkins is a data reporter for investigations at The Indianapolis Star. Prior to joining the investigative -team, they won awards covering environmental issues in Indiana.

On Twitter: @indyemapolis

Sara Sneath is an environmental reporter with The Times-Picayune and The Advocate. Email her tips at ssneath@theadvocate.com.

On Twitter: @sarasneath

Tegan Wendland is senior reporter on New Orleans Public Radio's Coastal Desk, where she has reported on Louisiana's (disappearing) coast for the past five years.

On Twitter: @TeganWendland

Jeremy Singer-Vine is the data editor at BuzzFeed News. He also publishes Data Is Plural, a weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets. Website: jsvine.com

Carla Astudillo is a news app and data visuals developer with a focus on elections and political data. Previously, she was a data and interactive visuals journalist at NJ.com and The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, where she helped build a database of police use of force in the state as part of a 16-month investigative project. She got her master's degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and her bachelor's degree from the University of Florida.

Ella is a visual journalist at FiveThirtyEight.

On Twitter: @ellawinthrop

Allison is a data journalist and graphics developer at Bloomberg News in New York. She specializes in creative data visualization and election graphics. Before she was at Bloomberg, she spent time at ProPublica, Stanford, The Center for Investigative Reporting and The PBS NewsHour.

On Twitter: @anmccartney

Sara Simon is an investigative data reporter at Spotlight PA, a new collaborative newsroom covering Pennsylvania's state government. Previously, she worked as a software engineer on the New York Times Interactive News Technologies team and a web developer at Vermont Public Radio.

On Twitter: @sarambsimon

Brian Freskos is an award-winning staff writer for The Trace, where his reporting has primarily focused on gun trafficking networks and community-based violence prevention. His work at The Trace has been published in partnership with The New Yorker, The Guardian and several other outlets. He holds degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill and Columbia University.

On Twitter: @BrianFreskos

Kristin Hussey is a Connecticut-based freelance reporter. Since 2007, Kristin has reported on corruption, philanthropy, guns, politics, poverty, pizza and prom dresses for The New York Times. Kristin has also been a staff writer for WSJ.com, The Capital in Annapolis, Maryland, and The News in Boca Raton, Florida.

On Twitter: @kristinhussey1

Hannah Dellinger was the lead reporter on Hearst Connecticut Media's investigation into child sexual abuse connected to Boys & Girls Clubs of America. She is currently a reporter at the Houston Chronicle.

On Twitter: @hdellingermedia

Kate Martin is the lead investigative reporter for Carolina Public Press. Her work has led to the creation of four state laws and the resignation of several elected officials. Her deep analysis of years of North Carolina court records showed that fewer than 1 in 4 people charged with sexual assault are ever convicted of that or a lesser crime.

On Twitter: @Katereports

Brandon Stahl works as an investigative reporter and producer for KARE 11, the Minneapolis NBC affiliate. Prior to that, he worked in newspapers for more than a decade, including the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where his work resulted in dozens of reforms and changes in state laws. He, along with three other Star Tribune journalists, were named Pulitzer Prize finalists in 2019 for "Denied Justice," a series on botched rape investigations.

Ren Larson is a data journalist with the Arizona Republic, where she has worked on elections, environmental contamination, wildfires and immigration projects. In a previous life, she was an urban planner for the city of Austin, Texas, and a short-lived bike messenger in Beirut. Ren holds a master's degree in public policy and an M.A. in International Studies from the University of California Berkeley.

On Twitter: @renLarson_

Casey is a data and visual journalist working on the data and graphics team at the Los Angeles Times. In the past, she has helped create visual and data driven graphics and narratives at Mapbox, Vox Media and The Wall Street Journal.

Wyloge is a Denver-based data and investigative reporter for The Colorado Springs Gazette focused on statewide accountability journalism. Formerly: The Desert Sun/USA Today Network, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Arizona Capitol Times.

On Twitter: @EvanWyloge

Meg Casper Sunstrom’s career began in television news, where she spent almost decade working for WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge. Next, she transitioned into communications and public relations, spending several years as the communications director at the Louisiana Department of Education before transitioning to deputy secretary for the Louisiana Secretary of State. Currently, Meg serves as deputy commissioner for strategic communications at the Louisiana Board of Regents.

Deborah Spiess Henton has practiced law for 25 years. For more than nine years, she has represented St. Tammany Parish Government, processing public records requests and advising and defending Parish Government on varied matters such as sales tax, drainage disputes, development issues, public works and other legal matters. She has taught classes on Louisiana's Public Records Law for lawyers and non-lawyers who work for public entities.

Benjamin Lesser is a reporter and a deputy editor at Reuters News. He also teaches investigative reporting at the City University New York Graduate School of Journalism. Prior to joining Reuters he spent most of his career working in newspapers. He spent 12 years as an investigative/data reporter at The Record in New Jersey (2000-2006) and the New York Daily News (2006-2012).

Captain J.B. Slaton is the public affairs commander for the Louisiana State Police. He has 22 years of law enforcement experience, including over 18 years with the state police. Captain’s Slaton’s career experience includes corrections, uniformed patrol, internal affairs and public affairs. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice and a Master of Arts degree in Education and Homeland Security, and he is a graduate of the FBI National Academy.

Patti DiVincenzo is a training director at IRE. She spent more than three decades working in TV stations across the country, starting in Topeka, Kansas, and eventually landing at WSB-TV in Atlanta, where she was an investigative producer and data specialist for 16 years. A longtime member of IRE, she joined the staff in February 2019.

Alex is an assistant professor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School, where he teaches data journalism. He's a former training director at Investigative Reporters & Editors, and he has previously worked as a reporter and editor at the Chicago Tribune, NerdWallet, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 and shared the Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting.

On Twitter: @alexrichards

Sisi Wei is the director of programs at OpenNews, where she envisions and executes transformative initiatives for journalism, especially for journalists of color and local journalists. Previously, she was assistant managing editor at ProPublica, where she oversaw and edited news apps, graphics, visual reporting and investigations.

Anthony Cave is an investigative producer and digital reporter on KXAN’s investigative team in Austin. He’s reported on everything from education benefits for post-9/11 veterans to domestic gun violence.

On Twitter: @Anthony_Cave

Christine Jeavans is a senior data journalist at BBC News with a focus on health, social issues and politics. Recent projects include covering the UK's 2019 general election, and the award-winning NHS Tracker.

On Twitter: @chrisjeavans

Lauryn Schroeder is an investigative data reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She previously worked for The Associated Press and took part in major data investigations with The Washington Post. She won an IRE award in 2013 for a series on shaken-baby syndrome, a controversial diagnosis that has led to hundreds of questionable child-abuse and murder convictions nationwide.

On Twitter: @laurynschroed

Agnes is a creative story technologist at ProPublica. Previously, she spent six years at The New York Times as a software engineer and product manager. She is also currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University.

On Twitter: @aggggnessss

Jan Diehm is a journalist-engineer with The Pudding, where she uses data to craft visual stories. Before joining The Pudding, she had stops at CNN, The Guardian US, ABC News, HuffPost, the Baltimore Sun and the Hartford Courant. She appreciates the finer things in life: LEGO sets; southern delicacies like pimento cheese, fried green tomatoes and good bourbon; and vintage Britney Spears. She lives in San Antonio with her wife and two cats.

On Twitter: @jadiehm

Scott Klein is a deputy managing editor at ProPublica. He oversees ProPublica's visual and data journalism. He also manages ProPublica's Electionland project, which is a large-scale cross-newsroom collaboration that covers voting and election integrity. Scott is also a co-founder of DocumentCloud and a board member of MuckRock.

On Twitter: @kleinmatic

Andrea Fuller is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York City who specializes in data analysis. She uses spreadsheets, databases and computer code to find stories. Ms. Fuller joined the Journal in April 2014. She previously was a data journalist at Gannett Digital, The Center for Public Integrity, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Bracey Harris is a staff writer for The Hechinger Report. Prior to joining Hechinger, she covered politics and education for the Clarion Ledger, where she also focused on government accountability for the paper’s investigative and enterprise team. The Magnolia State native sometimes bumps into her old high school principal on reporting assignments.

On Twitter: @braceyharris

Jan Diehm is a journalist-engineer with The Pudding, where she uses data to craft visual stories. Before joining The Pudding, she had stops at CNN, The Guardian US, ABC News, HuffPost, the Baltimore Sun and the Hartford Courant. She appreciates the finer things in life: LEGO sets; southern delicacies like pimento cheese, fried green tomatoes and good bourbon; and vintage Britney Spears. She lives in San Antonio with her wife and two cats.

On Twitter: @jadiehm

Nausheen (no'sheen) is a reporter at the Chicago Tribune who is interested in civil liberties, migration, surveillance and community. She thinks frequently about what it is to be both American and Muslim, and how those affect her work with data and words.

Mark Walker is a FOIA researcher in The New York Times Washington, D.C., bureau.

On Twitter: @bymarkwalker

Heath has been an investigative and political reporter for WFTV (ABC, Orlando) since 2013 covering state and local government. He has also worked at KENS (CBS, San Antonio) and WLWT (NBC, Cincinnati).

On Twitter: @CHeathWFTV

Josh Hinkle is KXAN’s Director of Investigations & Innovation, leading the station’s duPont- and IRE Award-winning investigative team on multiple platforms. He also leads KXAN’s political coverage as the executive producer and host of “State of Texas,” a weekly program focused on the Texas Legislature and elections, seen in 14 markets statewide.

On Twitter: @hinklej

Nicole Vap is the director of investigative journalism at KUSA in Denver and with TEGNA. Nicole leads a team of award-winning reporters and producers who investigate government corruption, questionable business practices, crime and scams in Denver and across the country. Nicole and her 9Wants to Know team have been recognized with an IRE Award in 2019, a Columbia duPont Silver Baton in 2011, and a national Edward R. Murrow award and a Sigma Delta Chi award in 2018.

Co-founder and head of data journalism for Texty.org.ua, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Author of a data visualization course for Prometheus (a Ukrainian MOOC platform) and visiting lecturer at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.

On Twitter: @dvrnd

Simon Rogers is an award-winning data journalist, writer and speaker. Author of ‘Facts are Sacred‘, published by Faber & Faber in the UK, China and South Korea. He has also written a range of infographics for children books from Candlewick. Data editor on the News Lab team at Google, based in San Francisco, he is director of the Data Journalism Awards and teaches Data Journalism at Medill-Northwestern University in San Francisco.

On Twitter: @smfrogers

Dr. McCarty has more than 15 years of experience in geospatial and data science, with applications in fire, climate change, emissions, air quality, agriculture and food security, land-cover/land-use change and forestry. Her work scales from farm-level to global. She currently works with U.S. state and federal agencies on wild and prescribed fire management, in addition to her work in India, Nepal, Peru, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, Ukraine, Mexico and the Arctic.

On Twitter: @jmccarty_geo

Ryan McNeill is the London-based deputy editor of the Reuters data journalism team. Most recently, his work showed how Burkina Faso’s increasing instability is putting thousands of gold mines in reach of jihadists, as well as how billions of dollars of gold are leaving Africa illegally through the United Arab Emirates. He has previously worked for The Dallas Morning News, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and The Oklahoman. He is a graduate of Oklahoma State University.

Dr. Odean Serrano worked for 26 years with NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and she was designated the first intelligence community lead for combatting wildlife trafficking. Now retired, Odean founded the Countering Wildlife Trafficking Institute, which is designed to implement collaboration and systemic thinking to solve wildlife trafficking using cutting-edge geospatial tools, analysis and AI modeling to provide continuity to mission-driven intelligence and law enforcement priorities. She also serves as the director of geospatial analytics for Chengeta Wildlife, a premier NGO with multidisciplinary expertise to support front line rangers and anti-poaching missions in Africa.

Lise Olsen, senior editor and writer at the Texas Observer magazine, has had many adventures in more than two decades of data journalism and digging for newspapers in five states. Her work has been featured in two documentaries. In one of her favorite former jobs, she directed IRE's Mexico project.

On Twitter: @lisedigger

Sinduja Rangarajan is the senior data journalist at Mother Jones. She previously worked at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, where her series on the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley led to many tech giants publicly releasing their data. Her work has won several awards, including the National Edward Murrow Award in 2019. She wrangles and analyzes datasets to tell stories and finds innovative ways to report on issues by collaborating with academics.

Lucia Walinchus is an award-winning journalist, attorney and ice hockey addict. She is currently the Executive Director at Eye on Ohio, the Ohio Center for Investigative Journalism. Walinchus was named a 2016 Fulbright Berlin Capital Program Scholar. She has been featured as a guest speaker on CNN and is a contracted freelancer for the New York Times. Walinchus has a degree in Journalism from American University and a Juris Doctor degree from California Western School of Law.

On Twitter: @SoSaysLucia

Lylla Younes is a news apps developer for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. She was previously a data reporter with New York Public Radio (WNYC) and Gothamist.

On Twitter: @lyllayounes

Michael Polito is an assistant professor at Louisiana State University. He is an ecologist with a focus on the influence of climate change on the food web dynamics of marine and coastal ecosystems ranging from Louisiana to Antarctica. His research, which explores species responses to climate change and other stressors, has been profiled by The New York Times, BBC News, The Wall Street Journal and Scientific American, among others.

On Twitter: @MJPolito

Maurice Tamman is a reporter and editor on the Reuters enterprise unit based in New York City. Most recently he published "Ocean Shock," an expansive examination of how climate change is causing chaos for fisheries around the planet. Previously, Mo ran the unit’s forensic data team, which he created after joining Reuters in 2011 from The Wall Street Journal.

On Twitter: @motamman

James Grimaldi is a senior writer on the investigative desk at The Wall Street Journal. A former IRE president, he now serves on the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. He won a Pulitzer in 2006 and has won many other awards, including an IRE FOI award in 2010 and a Dirksen award from the National Press Foundation in 2018. He previously worked for The Washington Post, Seattle Times, Orange County Register and San Diego Tribune. He is based in Washington, D.C.

Daniel Jeon as a legal fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (rcfp.org), a nonprofit legal services organization in Washington, D.C. He primarily works on litigation and amicus briefs to ensure that reporters get the records they requested under state and federal public records acts.

Katie LaGrone is the Florida investigative correspondent for The E.W. Scripps Company. An award-winning broadcast journalist, Katie’s investigative reports can be seen on ABC Action News in Tampa, WPTV NewsChannel 5 in West Palm Beach, FOX 4 in Fort Myers and WTXL in Tallahassee. Her reports have earned her more than a dozen Emmy's, AP awards and Edward R. Murrow awards.

Winny de Jong works as a data journalist at the Dutch public news broadcast, NOS. When she’s is not working, she enjoys other hobbies like yoga, crossfit and learning Portuguese. Até logo!

Louis Goddard is a data investigations advisor at the anti-corruption non-profit group Global Witness. He joined Global Witness in 2019 after two and a half years as a data journalist at The Times of London, where he worked on more than a dozen front-page stories, including flagship investigations into cyber-crime, tax havens and government contracting.

Giannina Segnini is the director of the Data Journalism Degree at Columbia University in New York City. She also oversees the cross-border data investigative fellowship at the J-School, an initiative to investigate organized crime and corruption across borders using data. Segnini is an investigative journalist from Costa Rica, where she used to lead a team of reporters that triggered more than 50 criminal investigations after their revelations.

Carla Astudillo is a news app and data visuals developer with a focus on elections and political data. Previously, she was a data and interactive visuals journalist at NJ.com and The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, where she helped build a database of police use of force in the state as part of a 16-month investigative project. She got her master's degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and her bachelor's degree from the University of Florida.

Jessica Huseman is a reporter for ProPublica based in Austin, Texas. She is the lead reporter for Electionland, ProPublica's collaborative effort to cover ballot access. She is a data journalism instructor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Caitlin Ostroff is a London-based reporter for The Wall Street Journal where she uses words, numbers and code to cover the world of finance. Previously, she was a data reporter at the Miami Herald, covering elections, gun violence and Mar-a-Lago. She’s a graduate of the University of Florida and co-director of @jourinternships’ online Media Mentors program. She’s happy to chat, so reach out at caitlin.ostroff@wsj.com.

On Twitter: @ceostroff

Rachel is a Senior Software Engineer and Assistant Editor for Data Projects on the Interactive News team at The New York Times. She works on a variety of software and data projects, including campaign finance and voter data. In addition, she is especially excited to chat about prime numbers.

Ally Jarmanning champions data and public records at WBUR, the NPR station in Boston. She focuses on policing and technology and leads training in the newsroom. Before jumping into radio, she was a crime reporter at The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio and reported for The Patriot Ledger and Boston.com in Massachusetts.

On Twitter: @allyjarmanning

Ken Sweet covers banking, financial discrimination and consumer protection issues for The Associated Press. Before joining the AP in 2013, Ken worked for The Wall Street Journal and CNN. He’s an Arizona native and an owner of a corgi named Latke.

Nick Diakopoulos is a professor of communication studies and computer science at Northwestern University. He studies automation and algorithms as they impact news media including aspects of journalistic data mining, automated content production, news bots and algorithmic accountability. He is author of "Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Media" from Harvard University Press, and co-editor of "Data-Driven Storytelling" from CRC Press.

On Twitter: @ndiakopoulos

Andrea Hickerson is a professor, the director of the school of Journalism and Mass Communications and an associate dean in the College of Information and Communications at the University of South Carolina. She conducts research on journalism routines with an emphasis on technology use and political communication. She is a member of an interdisciplinary team based at Rochester Institute of Technology studying deepfakes.

On Twitter: @aehickerson

Helena Bengtsson is editor for data journalism at Sveriges Television, Sweden’s national television broadcaster. She worked as editor for data projects at the Guardian UK between 2014-2017. In 2006 and 2007, she was database editor at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. She was twice awarded Stora Journalistpriset (The Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism) in Sweden, in 2010 for Valpejl.se and in 2016 for innovator of the year.

On Twitter: @HelenaBengtsson

Matt Dempsey is the data editor at the Houston Chronicle. He has worked on projects involving wildfires, state pensions and the chemical industry. His passion for public records frequently leads to disclosure of data from all levels of government. His series "Chemical Breakdown" won the 2016 IRE Innovation award and the National Press Foundation’s “Feddie” award. His work was a key part of the Chronicle’s Pulitzer Prize finalist entry for Breaking News.

Kimbriell Kelly is the Deputy Editor for Enterprise and Investigations at the Los Angeles Times' Washington, D.C., Bureau. Prior to joining the Times in June, Kelly was a reporter on the Investigative Unit at The Washington Post, where she was part of the team that won a Pulitzer in 2015 for the examination of officer-involved shootings. She was a Pulitzer finalist in 2019 for her work on "Murder with Impunity,” a series on unsolved homicides.

On Twitter: @kimbriell

Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami and the director of the Visualization Program at the university's Center for Computational Science. He's been a graphics director a media publications in Spain and Brazil, and he's currently a consultant for companies like Google. He's also the author of several books about visualization, such as 'How Charts Lie' (2019) and 'The Truthful Art' (2016).

On Twitter: @albertocairo

James Cochran earned a PhD in Statistics from the University of Cincinnati in 1997. Dr. Cochran has received the INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice, the Mu Sigma Rho Statistical Education Award, the ASA’s Founders Award, the Karl E. Peace Award for outstanding statistical contributions for the betterment of society, the ASA’s Waller Distinguished Teaching Career Award and the INFORMS President’s Award. He is a fellow of both the ASA and INFORMS.

Sarah Cohen is the Knight Chair in Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University. Previously, she worked as the editor of a data reporting team at The New York Times focused on long-term enterprise and investigative stories, and as a database editor for The Washington Post. Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting, the Goldsmith Prize and the IRE medal. She is a past president of IRE and served on the IRE board for eight years.

Lauren McGaughy is an investigative reporter for The Dallas Morning News capitol bureau in Austin, Texas. She has covered Texas politics and policy for six years, focusing on everything from education and gun laws to criminal justice and issues pertinent to the LGBTQ community. She previously worked for The Houston Chronicle and New Orleans Times-Picayune. She loves cats and comic books and cooks a mean steak.

On Twitter: @lmcgaughy

Tisha is an investigative reporter at ESPN, appearing on Outside the Lines, E:60 and SportsCenter. A member of ESPN's 2019 Peabody Award-winning team for "Spartan Secrets,” she also won the 2019 national Gracie Award for Best Online Video Host for espnW’s "Being Believed: A Conversation with Sister Survivors," which also received the 2019 Gold Telly Award for Best Online Talk Show. She’s been a member of IRE/NICAR for more than 20 years.

Lee Zurik is an Evening News Anchor and Chief Investigative Reporter at WVUE-TV in New Orleans and Director of Investigations at Gray Television and Investigate TV. Lee has been honored with many of journalism’s top awards, including the Peabody, the duPont and the IRE Medal. Before Hurricane Katrina, Lee was a sports anchor/reporter. He taught himself to be an investigative reporter by reading IRE resources (books and tipsheets) and attending IRE conferences.

Tyler Dukes is an investigative reporter at WRAL News in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he specializes in data and public records. In 2017, he completed a fellowship at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and currently teaches at Duke University's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy. Prior to joining WRAL, he worked as managing editor for Duke University’s Reporters’ Lab, a project to reduce the costs of investigative journalism.

On Twitter: @mtdukes

Jenifer McKim is a senior investigative reporter at WGBH's New England Center for Investigative Reporting and a professor of journalism at Boston University. She is a multimedia reporter focusing on topics including child welfare, sex trafficking and criminal justice. Her radio and print stories have received multiple awards, including a 2019 Edward R. Murrow Award and a 2011 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.

On Twitter: @jbmckim

Lylla Younes is a news apps developer for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. She was previously a data reporter with New York Public Radio (WNYC) and Gothamist.

On Twitter: @lyllayounes

Barbara Gray is a research methods professor and oversees the research center at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University New York. She is the former director of news research at The New York Times and a recognized expert on investigative research.

On Twitter: @BarbGray

Margot Williams is an investigative researcher at The Intercept. She has pursued jihadists online and detainees who died in U.S. immigration detention, investigated Iraq war contractors and followed the money (and private jets and yachts) of mayors, governors, senators, oligarchs, presidential candidates and ex-presidents at ICIJ, NPR, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Ariana Giorgi is a Senior Computational Journalist at the Dallas Morning News, where she writes and contributes to stories involving data analysis.

On Twitter: @ArianaNGiorgi

Anita Hassan joined NBC News Digital as a national reporter in 2019. Previously, she worked on the I-team at the Las Vegas Review Journal. Before moving to Las Vegas, Hassan was an investigative reporter for the Houston Chronicle, where her award-winning reporting highlighted a massive backlog of untested rape kits, county jail abuses and failures in the criminal justice system that allowed a serial rapist in to go free for a decade.

Brooke Williams is an investigative reporter who specializes in data journalism. Her work has contributed to a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, a George Polk Award and a Gerald Loeb Award, among others. She is an associate professor of the practice of computational journalism at Boston University and writes for The Intercept. Her data-driven investigations have appeared in The New York Times, inewsource, the Center for Public Integrity and more.

On Twitter: @reporterbrooke

Caitlin Ostroff is a London-based reporter for The Wall Street Journal where she uses words, numbers and code to cover the world of finance. Previously, she was a data reporter at the Miami Herald, covering elections, gun violence and Mar-a-Lago. She’s a graduate of the University of Florida and co-director of @jourinternships’ online Media Mentors program. She’s happy to chat, so reach out at caitlin.ostroff@wsj.com.

On Twitter: @ceostroff

Brian M. Rosenthal is a metro investigative reporter at the The New York Times. Previously, he covered government for The Houston Chronicle and The Seattle Times. He was part of the reporting team that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news. He also was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in public service for a series that exposed that Texas was denying special education services to thousands of kids with disabilities. He is a member of IRE's board of directors.

Brandon Stahl works as an investigative reporter and producer for KARE 11, the Minneapolis NBC affiliate. Prior to that, he worked in newspapers for more than a decade, including the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where his work resulted in dozens of reforms and changes in state laws. He, along with three other Star Tribune journalists, were named Pulitzer Prize finalists in 2019 for "Denied Justice," a series on botched rape investigations.

Cheryl W. Thompson is IRE board president and an investigative correspondent for NPR. Prior to joining NPR, she spent 22 years at The Washington Post. Her investigations include local political corruption, cops killed by guns, witnesses killed for cooperating with police, people who died after being Tasered by police and the unsolved murders of six black girls nearly 50 years ago. Her awards include a shared Pulitzer, an Emmy, IRE and two NABJ awards.

Stephanie Lamm is a data journalist for the Houston Chronicle. She looks for stories in datasets and public records. She also creates interactive graphics for online stories. Stephanie previously worked for the Dallas Morning News and attended The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

On Twitter: @stephanierlamm

Robert Benincasa does data-driven reporting for NPR's investigations team in Washington, D.C.. Recent work includes a series on how federal disaster aid favors the wealthy and a consumer investigation into diabetic alert dogs.

On Twitter: @robertbenincasa

A news developer at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Past lives at Reveal and the Des Moines Register. Analog/digital synthesizer. Current interests include mapping, science, history, data on the radio, police use of force and sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

On Twitter: @mikejcorey

Jenifer McKim is a senior investigative reporter at WGBH's New England Center for Investigative Reporting and a professor of journalism at Boston University. She is a multimedia reporter focusing on topics including child welfare, sex trafficking and criminal justice. Her radio and print stories have received multiple awards, including a 2019 Edward R. Murrow Award and a 2011 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.

On Twitter: @jbmckim

Sinduja Rangarajan is the senior data journalist at Mother Jones. She previously worked at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, where her series on the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley led to many tech giants publicly releasing their data. Her work has won several awards, including the National Edward Murrow Award in 2019. She wrangles and analyzes datasets to tell stories and finds innovative ways to report on issues by collaborating with academics.

Kristen manages the security education program at The New York Times. Before joining The Times, she worked as an application security engineer and helped build secure coding education at email marketing platform Mailchimp. She is passionate about building accessible security education and resources for journalists around the world.

On Twitter: @dontclickonthat

Rowen is the newsroom services coordinator at Freedom of the Press Foundation, working with the SecureDrop and Digital Security teams. A former community organizer and software developer, Rowen combines privacy nerdery with the desire to make tech accessible and useful to those who need it. *Come find me at NICAR and ask me about secure tip-line workflows for newsrooms and freelancers, digital security, or how I learned to stop killing all of my houseplants.*

Mike is a hacker-journalist at ProPublica, where he works on news applications, network infrastructure and digital security. 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’s Studio20 digital journalism program and was a 2013 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow.

On Twitter: @mtigas

Matt Dempsey is the data editor at the Houston Chronicle. He has worked on projects involving wildfires, state pensions and the chemical industry. His passion for public records frequently leads to disclosure of data from all levels of government. His series "Chemical Breakdown" won the 2016 IRE Innovation award and the National Press Foundation’s “Feddie” award. His work was a key part of the Chronicle’s Pulitzer Prize finalist entry for Breaking News.

Jaimi Dowdell is a data journalist for Reuters. Previously she was a training director for Investigative Reporters & Editors and data editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. jaimi.dowdell@tr.com

On Twitter: @JaimiDowdell

Liz Lucas is the data editor at Kaiser Health News and a member of the investigative team. Previously she worked at Investigative Reporters & Editors as the NICAR Data Library director and trainer. She lives in St Louis.

On Twitter: @eklucas

Brett Murphy is a reporter on USA Today’s investigations desk. He’s also an adjunct journalism professor at George Washington University. Murphy co-founded Local Matters, a weekly newsletter curating the best local investigative reporting around the country. Murphy has won numerous journalism awards and was a 2018 Pulitzer finalist for his series on worker exploitation in the port trucking industry. He is based in Washington, D.C.

On Twitter: @brettmmurphy

Steve Myers is a national enterprise editor for investigations at USA TODAY. Before joining USA TODAY, he was a 2019 Nieman fellow. As an editor at The Lens, a nonprofit newsroom in New Orleans, he shaped editorial strategy and oversaw its investigative reporting. He was managing editor of Poynter Online, and before that, he spent 10 years reporting on environmental issues, criminal justice, clergy sex abuse and hurricane preparation and response.

Nick Diakopoulos is a professor of communication studies and computer science at Northwestern University. He studies automation and algorithms as they impact news media including aspects of journalistic data mining, automated content production, news bots and algorithmic accountability. He is author of "Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Media" from Harvard University Press, and co-editor of "Data-Driven Storytelling" from CRC Press.

On Twitter: @ndiakopoulos

Ms. Fehr is an assistant editor and lead developer at The New York Times. As a developer within the Times' newsroom, she specializes in software supporting breaking news and live coverage workflows, as well as programmatic approaches to analyzing massive source material collections.

Casey is a data and visual journalist working on the data and graphics team at the Los Angeles Times. In the past, she has helped create visual and data driven graphics and narratives at Mapbox, Vox Media and The Wall Street Journal.

Skillman is a senior editor at Bloomberg focused on breaking news and data journalism. He previously served as managing editor for news automation and helped found First Word, a real-time contextual breaking news service.

On Twitter: @bradqskillman

Ally Levine is a graphics reporter at Reuters, where she reports her own stories and collaborates with text reporters throughout the organization to produce visual stories. Previously, she worked as the data visualization fellow for ProPublica's Electionland during the 2018 Midterms and as a graphics intern at the Los Angeles Times.

Miller is an engagement reporting fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network.

On Twitter: @mayatmiller

Deborah Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist based at University of Maryland, home of the new Howard Center for Investigative Journalism. Recent student projects examined jail suicides with the Associated Press, urban heat islands with NPR and juvenile lifers with PBS NewsHour. Nelson co-authored a series for Reuters on military base housing that won top honors from the Society for Professional Journalists, National Press Club and the White House Correspondents Association last year. She previously worked at the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and the Seattle Times.

Krishnan Vasudevan is a critical scholar and filmmaker whose work examines within the intersections of media, cultural, journalism, and design studies. He employs filmmaking and ethnographic methods such as field research and collaboration to understand how and why members of different social groups such as journalists, taxi drivers and artists produce media.

Jamie Grey is the executive producer of investigations for Gray Television and InvestigateTV, which produces stories for the company's stations in 93 television markets. She was previously a professor at the University of Missouri and an investigative and general assignment reporter in Iowa and Idaho. Jamie loves using data for journalism and life in general, tracking her Fantasy Football drafts and running and spinning miles.

On Twitter: @tvnewsjamie

Bracey Harris is a staff writer for The Hechinger Report. Prior to joining Hechinger, she covered politics and education for the Clarion Ledger, where she also focused on government accountability for the paper’s investigative and enterprise team. The Magnolia State native sometimes bumps into her old high school principal on reporting assignments.

On Twitter: @braceyharris

Tisha is an investigative reporter at ESPN, appearing on Outside the Lines, E:60 and SportsCenter. A member of ESPN's 2019 Peabody Award-winning team for "Spartan Secrets,” she also won the 2019 national Gracie Award for Best Online Video Host for espnW’s "Being Believed: A Conversation with Sister Survivors," which also received the 2019 Gold Telly Award for Best Online Talk Show. She’s been a member of IRE/NICAR for more than 20 years.

Patti DiVincenzo is a training director at IRE. She spent more than three decades working in TV stations across the country, starting in Topeka, Kansas, and eventually landing at WSB-TV in Atlanta, where she was an investigative producer and data specialist for 16 years. A longtime member of IRE, she joined the staff in February 2019.

Sarah Hutchins is a training director for IRE & NICAR. She previously served as the organization’s editorial director, overseeing IRE’s publications and online platforms. Sarah has worked for daily newspapers in several states. Before joining IRE in 2014, she was a reporter at The Virginian-Pilot. Sarah has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Indiana University and a master's degree in data science and analytics from the University of Missouri.

On Twitter: @sarhutch

Will Craft is the data reporter for APM Reports and the podcast In The Dark. He does numbers and web stuff for radio and podcasts. He is often typing stuff into a spreadsheet.

On Twitter: @craftworksxyz

Lisa Pickoff-White is a data reporter at KQED, a public radio and TV station based in San Francisco. She previously worked at the Center for Investigative Reporting and other outlets. Her work has been honored with awards from the Online News Association, Investigative Reporters & Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and SXSW Interactive. Feathered dinosaur and data enthusiast.

On Twitter: @pickoffwhite

Cohen is a developer and reporter based in Washington, D.C. He's spent more than a decade investigating public and private interests for outlets including CNN, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Center for Public Integrity and Reuters.

On Twitter: @capitolmuckrakr

Pratheek is a news developer at the Center for Public Integrity. He previously worked on the graphics team at Time Magazine.

Alexandra Kanik works for Louisville Public Media, the parent organization of Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting and the Ohio Valley ReSource. She spends her days writing language-agnostic code, creating data visualizations and trying to understand newsroom analytics.

On Twitter: @act_rational

Charles Minshew is the Director of Data Services for IRE & NICAR. He leads the Database Library, helps members with data analysis and is a trainer. An award-winning data journalist, he previously worked at the Orlando Sentinel and was on the Denver Post team that won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. A 2013 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and Georgia Southern University, Charles is a native of Rochelle, Ga.

On Twitter: @charlesminshew

Cody is a training director at Investigative Reporters & Editors. Before joining IRE, he worked at newspapers in Texas, Nebraska and South Dakota.

Doug Haddix is executive director of Investigative Reporters & Editors. He oversees training, conferences and services for 6,000 members worldwide. Previously, Haddix worked as an IRE training director, an assistant vice president at Ohio State University, director of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism and as an editor and reporter at newspapers in Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania. He earned a master's in journalism from Indiana University.

On Twitter: @DougHaddix

Denise Malan is IRE's Deputy Executive Director, overseeing all training programs, event logistics and the IRE Resource Center. She was a newspaper journalist for more than a decade, covering government, education, politics, the environment and more. After several years at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in Texas, she joined IRE in 2013 in a joint position with the Institute for Nonprofit News, helping newsrooms around the country use data in their reporting.

On Twitter: @DeniseMalan