Emily Saltz
Founder & Principal Researcher at Saltern Studio
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Saltz is a founder and principal researcher who blends 11 years of UX research and design experience into Saltern Studio, a consultancy focused on public-interest technology and making complex information ecosystems more human-readable. She has led research and prototypes at organizations including Jigsaw (Google), The New York Times R&D Lab, and the Partnership on AI, tackling problems from NLP-driven Q&A and media provenance to tools for understanding large-scale conversations. Emily pairs academic rigor—publishing at CHI and teaching usability at Parsons—with hands-on product work across startups and newsrooms, including a blockchain-backed photo provenance prototype and accessibility-focused sonification at Bloomberg. Her practice emphasizes multimedia ethnographies and actionable research reports, and she recently expanded into documentary storytelling with a short film on civic resilience. Collected across industry, academia, and creative practice, her work reveals a rare mix of technical fluency, narrative sensitivity, and commitment to public-interest outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
UCLA Digital Media Arts Summer InstituteGraduate Certificate Short Film, Graduate Certificate Short Film at Salt Institute for Documentary StudiesFront-end web development, Front-end web development at Hackbright AcademyUniversity of California Santa CruzMaster of Human Computer Interaction, Master of Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
Russian, French
Stackoverflow
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Saltzshaker/saltzshaker.github.io
Aug 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:177 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
Saltzshaker/bio-kinetic-typography-chat
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:48 pushes in 2 months
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