Rebecca Lai
Graphics Editor at The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRebecca Lai is a Graphics Editor at The New York Times with 12 years of experience blending journalism, design, and front-end development to tell complex stories visually. She builds and refines interactive graphics and authoring tools, contributing UI-focused improvements to open-source projects like JuxtaposeJS to enhance image-comparison experiences. With roots in editorial apps, magazine art direction, and student-facing tech at Knight Lab, she pairs newsroom rigor with polished visual design and practical coding chops. Based in New York, she’s known for thoughtful typographic and layout decisions that improve clarity for large audiences while mentoring others to adopt programming in journalistic workflows.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Journalism, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Journalism at Northwestern UniversityMaryknoll Convent School
fluent chinese (mandarin and cantonese)
Github Skills (5)
html10
css10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
javascript5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NUKnightLab/juxtapose
Sep 2014 - Sep 2014
JuxtaposeJS is a JavaScript library for making before/after image sliders
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Rebecca primarily focused on front-end development, making changes to HTML and CSS files related to the user interface. Their commits involved rearranging UI elements, updating styles, and modifying fonts within the `juxtapose` project. The user also addressed the positioning of elements, and modified the preview functionality. They demonstrated a focus on enhancing the authoring tool's appearance and functionality.
javascript-libraryimageslidersjavascriptbefore-after
kklai/kklai.github.io
May 2015 - Feb 2025
Personal Website
Contributions:6 PRs, 234 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 11 months
react
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