The Data-Driven Reporting Project

Jill Castellano is a data reporter for The Marshall Project. Jill has worked for ABC-owned television stations, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Desert Sun, inewsource and USA TODAY, earning a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2018 for her work on the deaths of undocumented border crossers. Her passion is shedding light on injustices and holding the powerful accountable. Jill graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in psychology and criminology and was editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Terra Ciolfe is a journalist and a professor at Humber Polytechnic in Toronto, Canada, where she teaches data and investigative journalism. She has worked at various news organizations, from hyper-local outlets to national ones, such as The Canadian Press, Macleans Magazine, CBC and The Globe and Mail.

Jayme Fraser is an award-winning investigative data journalist for USA TODAY who lives in the Rocky Mountain West. She exposes the causes of inequities and shows solutions to them while sharing stories from people with lived experience. Her work has spurred changes to state laws, amendments to federal policies, updates to hospital practices, and helped to free a man wrongfully convicted of murdering his infant son.

Adrian D. Garcia is the managing editor of data visualizations for Financial Times Specialist. He previously covered personal finance topics as a data reporter and analyst for Bankrate and reported on business, trends and other news stories for Denverite the Fort Collins Coloradoan and other news organizations in Colorado. He serves on the NAHJ Business Journalism Task Force. And in the fall, he teaches an intro to data journalism course at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

Emmanuel Martinez is an investigative data reporter for The Washington Post, where he uses data, statistics and programming to tell stories. While at The Post, he has examined the role that the U.S. Government, in collaboration with the Catholic Church, played in removing Native American children from their homes and placing them into boarding schools in the 1900s. He’s also reported on child labor, self-driving vehicles and housing issues.

Before joining The Post, he worked at The Markup and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting in a similar role. His work there examined access to homeownership and mortgage discrimination, where he analyzed millions of housing records to prove that people of color were being routinely denied mortgages.

His work has garnered awards such as The Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award, The George Foster Peabody Award, and The Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. In 2019, he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting.

Laura Moscoso is a Puerto Rican journalist and training director for IRE & NICAR. Laura is an educator focusing on data, visualization tools, and media literacy. She has a bachelor's degree in Creative Writing from the University of Puerto Rico and a master's degree in Journalism from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos I in Madrid. She has worked in various newsrooms, including Prensa Comunitaria, El Nuevo Día, El Mundo (Spain), the Center for Investigative Journalism, and Todas. In 2018 she contributed the non-fiction piece Monta mi guagua for the book Santurce y 8 crónicas de viaje, a publication of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico.

Aarushi Sahejpal is a professorial lecturer in data journalism at American University in Washington, D.C. and Data Editor at The Investigative Reporting Workshop.

Mahima Singh is an award-winning data journalist and currently a Data Editor at The Globe and Mail in Toronto, where she covers global topics like the legal system, war, crime, politics, business, and natural disasters through a data-driven lens. Formerly at The Canadian Press, she reported for the investigative team at the Palm Beach Post, focusing on President Trump, school shootings, hurricanes, and the South Florida drug epidemic. In 2019, as a visual and data journalist with the BBC, she covered South and East Asian media. Mahima received the 2022 National Newspaper Award for Politics, a 2022 Canadian Association of Journalists' data journalism award nomination, and the 2019 South Asian Digital Media Award for Best Data Visualization, alongside the Sunshine State Award for Infographics & Data Visualization in Florida.Description goes here

Andrew Ba Tran is an investigative data reporter. Before the Post, he worked with data at The Connecticut Mirror and The Boston Globe. He has worked in newsrooms at the Virginian-Pilot and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He’s a Metpro Fellow and a Chips Quinn Scholar. He is also an adjunct professor at American University.

Mago Torres is The Examination’s data editor. Mago has held leadership roles at the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP) and OpenNews. She worked for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on the Pandora Papers, FinCEN Files, Luanda Leaks and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers.

She was a lead journalist on an investigation into clandestine graves in Mexico which garnered numerous awards including the 2019 Gabo journalism prize, which recognizes the best investigations in Latin America. Mago is originally from Mexico City and speaks Spanish.