Description: Independent journalist specializing in data, graphics reporting and telling the whole of any story. Past work at The Texas Tribune and The Charlotte Observer.
Journalist, editor, researcher
I pitched, wrote and produced data visualizations for this multimedia story on bat population loss in Texas and its impacts. For the story, I talked to over 15 different bat experts and visited bat sites across the state in order to understand how scientists were combatting the loss and the lack of historical data collection. Using Illustrator, I made a graphic with over 500 little bat SVGs in order to demonstrate the population change over time.
I custom built and designed this full width scrolling page using HTML, CSS and JavaScript to accompany our special print Abortion Issue. To build this, I integrated multiple JavaScript plugins into the same code and cracked into the backend of our student newspaper website to allow customization. While I was working on this interactive scrolling page, I also edited and directed the creation of four different data visualizations in the print paper.