ORGANISATIONS

The Pulitzer Center is a nonprofit that supports impactful journalism and public engagement on global issues. Founded in 2006, it works with journalists, educators, and communities in over 80 countries to raise awareness and drive change on topics like climate, health, human rights, and social justice.

Attending the Media Village will be:

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.

Susan Ferriss is a veteran journalist and senior editor at the Pulitzer Center, where she supports reporters and media outlets worldwide on health stories and other enterprise work.

Her own prize-winning investigations have revealed wage theft affecting U.S. immigrants and foreign guest workers, as well as Covid-19 deaths among immigrants and guest workers involved in U.S. food production. Susan’s stories exposing abusive policing of students in U.S. schools inspired laws limiting how officers can interact with children. As a foreign correspondent, her stories on inequality unaddressed by Mexican economic reforms won an Overseas Press Club award for Latin American reporting. A documentary Susan produced, The Golden Cage, is about farmworkers in California. She also co-wrote a book,

The Fight in the Fields, about U.S. farmworker leader Cesar Chavez.