Summary
Ella Koeze is a financial graphics editor with 11 years of experience translating complex data into clear, visually compelling stories for major newsrooms including Reuters, The New York Times, and FiveThirtyEight. She combines a strong grounding in GIS, cartography, and web mapping (master’s from UW–Madison) with a liberal arts background in English and geography from UNC–Chapel Hill, enabling precise visual narratives that balance technical rigor and editorial clarity. At The Times she led business-focused graphics projects and at FiveThirtyEight she built interactive visuals, showing fluency across static, interactive, and geospatial formats. Based in New York, she brings newsroom discipline to deadline-driven projects and a knack for making data-driven insights immediately useful to broad audiences.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree GIS and Web Mapping, Master's degree GIS and Web Mapping at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English and Geography, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English and Geography at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
German, Indonesian, Spanish