Kae Petrin
Journalism Fellow at Trans Journalists Association
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKae Petrin is a data journalist and graphics storyteller with nine years of experience turning public records and complex datasets into accessible investigative reporting and interactive newsroom tools. Currently on sabbatical as a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow and data & graphics reporter for Civic News Company, Kae builds data visualizations, web apps, and trains reporters across statewide newsrooms on best practices in data reporting. They co-founded and helped raise $1 million for the Trans Journalists Association, where they authored style and employer-guidance resources to improve media coverage and workplace inclusion for trans journalists. Technically fluent in Python, SQL/PostgreSQL, PostGIS, D3, Datawrapper and scraping/PDF processing, Kae blends front-end storytelling with back-end data engineering to produce accountability journalism on education, health, and voting. Notably, their background spans both corporate healthcare analytics and grassroots investigative projects, bringing rigor and product-minded discipline to editorial workflows.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Special Major in Medical Humanities (history concentration); Minor in Writing & Classics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Special Major in Medical Humanities (history concentration); Minor in Writing & Classics at Washington University in St. LouisLC101, Java Track, LC101, Java Track at LaunchCode
Latin
Github Skills (27)
data-journalism10
digital-humanities9
jupyterlab9
jupyter-notebook9
sphinx8
python8
backup8
tumblr8
jupyter8
altair8
notebook7
pandas7
journalism6
data-analysis6
visuals6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
transja/styleguide.transjournalists.org
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 PRs, 37 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
Chalkbeat/sunshine
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 3 years 2 months
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