Recent experience

New York | April 2020 – present

Graphics reporter, The Wall Street Journal

  • Pitch, report and create enterprise graphics standalones; collaborate with reporters and editors in joint-venture visuals projects across coverage areas.

  • Assisted the department leaders in graphics coverage for WSJ’s Personal Journal desk as well as sports, enterprise and Page One.

Los Angeles | May 2014 – April 2020

Graphics and data journalist, Los Angeles Times

  • Pitched, reported and produced daily and long-term graphics, maps and other data visualizations for print and online.

  • Assisted the department in daily breaking graphics operations for the digital news desk.

  • Part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting on the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack.

Boston | Feb. 2012 - April 2013

Deputy social media and news desk editor, GlobalPost

  • Pitched, designed and assisted in producing more than a dozen GlobalPost reporting projects.

  • Assisted in managing daily social and wire content.

  • Trained more than 15 correspondents and writers with digital reporting skills by hosting training workshops and writing guidelines on best practices.

Awards and achievements

  • Society for News Design

    2021
    Award of Excellence     in Design: Business
    Award of Excellence in Design: Features
    Award of Excellence in Format: Use of Audio
    Award of Excellence in Infographics: Business (x2)

    2016
    Award of Excellence in Information Graphics
    Award of Excellence in Features

    2015
    Silver Medal in Information Graphics

  • SABEW

    2021

    Honorable Mention in Economics, large division

  • Malofiej

    2015
    Bronze in Breaking News
    Bronze in Features

  • Pulitzer Prize

    2015
    Breaking News Reporting, staff

  • Executive Leadership Program

    2019
    Graduate of the Asian American Journalists Association’s ELP program dedicated to train the next generation of newsroom leaders and managers.

  • Best American Infographics

    2015

    The evolution of California's drought was selected and published in the the “Best American Infographics”