Lily Bhandari
Co-Founder at Narra Consulting
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLily Bhandari is a design-driven product leader and co-founder with 11 years of experience crafting user interfaces, experience design, and newsroom products across web and mobile. She led design and data teams at POLITICO and steered high-engagement projects at the Los Angeles Times, including data-driven election coverage that reached millions of readers. Lily blends art direction, prototyping and production skills with strategic project management and a knack for establishing clear product requirements and brand voice. She now advises media executives through Narra Consulting, applying newsroom-honed methods to deliver immediate wins and long-term impact. Trained at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism with UX study at UCLA Extension, she’s as comfortable defending design decisions with research as she is rapidly prototyping solutions. An unusually multidisciplinary background—from radio reporting to interactive storytelling—gives her a rare empathy for editorial workflows and audience behavior.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Physical Geography, Spanish minor, BA, Physical Geography, Spanish minor at University of California, BerkeleyUser Experience, User Experience at UCLA ExtensionMaster's, New Media, Master's, New Media at UC Berkeley School of Journalism
English, Spanish
Github Skills (27)
yeoman7
scaffold6
get-started6
yeoman-generator6
generator5
development-environment4
postgis3
macos3
secretary3
postgresql3
typescript3
cal3
data-journalism2
database-access2
django2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LilyMihalik/lilymihalik.github.io
Oct 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:107 pushes in 3 years 7 months
javascriptnextjsreact
The-Politico/politico-style
Feb 2018 - May 2019
Web fashions by POLITICO Interactives.
Contributions:124 commits, 4 PRs, 91 pushes in 1 year 3 months
interactives
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