Sam Rabiyah
Contributing Editor, Data And News Apps
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Rabiyah is a data-driven journalist and mapmaker with 11 years of experience building interactive news apps, civic web tools, and data visualizations that support tenant advocacy and urban policy. Currently a Contributing Editor for Data and News Apps at THE CITY and a computational journalist at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, he blends software engineering with applied urban research as an adjunct professor at NYU Wagner. Previously he led data engineering at JustFix.nyc, where he maintained multiple tools used by tenant organizers, produced investigative reports, and coordinated a national collective mapping property ownership networks. His work sits at the intersection of storytelling, spatial analysis, and social justice—often translating complex municipal data into actionable tools and trainings for community stakeholders. Trained in mathematics and critical theory, he pairs technical rigor with a focus on equitable outcomes and has a track record of embedding technical capacity directly within grassroots movements.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics | Social, Cultural & Critical Theory, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics | Social, Cultural & Critical Theory at Wesleyan University
English, Spanish, Arabic
Github Skills (35)
postgresql10
mapbox-gl-js10
mapbox-gl10
nyc10
typescript10
open-data10
psql10
updating10
database10
visualization9
react9
batch8
startup7
deploying7
emotionjs7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thecityny/fullpage-react-template
Nov 2022 - Oct 2023
A template for building and deploying full-page custom news apps, made in NYC by THE CITY. Based on the Create React App and the LA Times Baker template.
Contributions:15 releases, 6 reviews, 23 PRs in 11 months
deployingreactemotionjsfullpagetimes
JustFixNYC/who-owns-what
Oct 2018 - Aug 2022
Who owns what in nyc?
Contributions:90 reviews, 465 commits, 604 PRs in 3 years 9 months
civictechcivic-techmapboxmapbox-glopendata
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