Speakers

Joanna Kao

Senior AI Editor, Pulitzer Center

Joanna S. Kao leads the Pulitzer Center's AI Accountability Network, where she oversees a portfolio of AI and machine-learning reporting projects and develops resources for other journalists looking to do AI-related reporting. Kao holds a computer science degree from MIT and an MBA from IE Business School.

She was previously the tech lead of the Financial Times' visual and data journalism team and a multimedia reporter and interactive developer at Al Jazeera America.

She has taught data visualization at Columbia Journalism School, as well as developed and taught two new accessibility courses for The New School Parsons School of Design. She also co-authored an academic book chapter on integrating data processes in newsrooms.