Shelly Tan
Graphics Editor at The Washington Post
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShelly Tan is a graphics editor and visual storyteller with 12 years of experience crafting interactive graphics, data visualizations and illustrations for The Washington Post, specializing recently in pop culture projects. Trained at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, she blends journalism instincts with front-end coding and UI design, moving fluidly from paper prototypes to polished Photoshop and Illustrator mock-ups and deployed web interactives. Her background includes hands-on news apps work at NPR and experimentation with newsroom tech at Knight Lab, giving her a strong mix of editorial sensibility and technical prototyping. Known for thoughtful hand-drawn illustration alongside code-driven visuals, she focuses on making complex information engaging and approachable for broad audiences in the Washington, D.C. area.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSJ, Journalism, Art Theory & Practice, BSJ, Journalism, Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University - Medill School of JournalismCherry Hill High School East
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (18)
npr9
visuals9
css7
react6
svg5
fonts5
javascript5
typescript4
font-awesome3
branding3
woff3
google-fonts3
logos2
svg-font1
deploying1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ShellyTan/shellytan.github.io
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:122 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
ShellyTan/mad-barista
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 6 days
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