Joanna Kao
Senior Editor, Information And Artificial Intelligence
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoanna Kao is a senior editor and technologist who leads the AI Accountability Network at the Pulitzer Center, combining 13 years of experience across data journalism, engineering and product strategy. With a computer science degree from MIT and an MBA from IE Business School, she has led the Financial Times’ visual journalism tech team, built the FT’s first foreign graphics desk, and spearheaded accessible design and workflow improvements that scaled newsroom production. Joanna teaches and designs curricula on accessibility and data visualization for institutions including Columbia, Parsons and The New School, and she has a track record of shipping tools and templates that turn reporting needs into repeatable engineering solutions. Comfortable at the intersection of journalism, design and code, she mentors cross-functional teams and cultivates communities of reporters working on AI accountability. In her spare time she explores theater-related data—bringing an uncommon creative lens to data-driven storytelling.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering with Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering with Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at IE Business School
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Github Skills (59)
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expressjs7
energy-data7
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Financial-Times/g-audio
Jun 2016 - Mar 2022
Styled audio players
Contributions:6 releases, 15 PRs, 79 pushes in 5 years 10 months
audio-playerpublic-archived
ft-interactive/life-of-a-song
Nov 2017 - May 2024
Code to generate Life of a Song stories with inline audio players
Contributions:1 review, 33 PRs, 82 pushes in 6 years 7 months
audio-player
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