Agnes Chang, The New York Times

Agnes is currently a visual editor working on international news, especially Asia. She was previously at ProPublica, where she designed, art directed and reported for investigative stories. Previously, she was a product manager and software engineer. She also has taught data visualization and augmented reality design at Parsons and Columbia University.

Alex Tatusian, Los Angeles Times

Alex is a graphic designer and art director in Los Angeles. Currently, he is the deputy design director for digital projects at the Los Angeles Times, working on unorthodox digital stories and other newsroom projects. He works in the space between digital and print editorial design, civic engagement and artistic practice.

Allen Tan, ProPublica

Allen is a designer at ProPublica, where he works on storytelling tools and interactive projects, such as The Secret IRS Files. Previously, he worked at the ACLU as director of product design and at the New York Times.

Alvin Chang, The New School

Alvin is assistant professor of journalism and design at The New School. Most recently, he was head of visuals and data at the Guardian US. He also has worked at Vox, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, ESPN and The Connecticut Mirror. His work often covers the policies that drive inequities in education and the economy.

Christopher DeLisle, ESPN

Christopher designs and oversees custom digital executions at ESPN. His duties also include overseeing style guides and data visualizations. His path has taken him from digital to publishing/print with some agency work before returning to publishing/print with ESPN, and finally, back to digital again.

Elena Mejía, Freelance

Elena worked at FiveThirtyEight for almost three years, where she worked on interactive design, front-end development and visual-driven stories to elevate storytelling. She has a master’s degree from Columbia University in data journalism.

Emil Thorbjörnsson, The Daily Newspaper Information

Emil is a conceptually and visually strong designer working in the fields of news design, illustration and motion graphics. His previous work includes digital storytelling for The Danish National Broadcaster, illustration and design for motion pictures, as well as UX and animation. Currently, he works on digital design for The Daily Newspaper Information in Copenhagen.

Erin Aulov, Politico

Erin is a senior visuals editor at Politico, heading up the organization’s illustration efforts and working across multiple teams to design and produce Politico’s most compelling visual stories. Previously, Erin held art director positions at National Journal, USA Today, Foreign Policy and Washingtonian.

Hilary Fung, San Francisco Chronicle

Hilary leads the graphics and engineering team at The San Francisco Chronicle. Previously, she has worked as a designer, developer, journalist and product manager at ProPublica, NPR, Quartz, ICIJ, The Huffington Post and The Seattle Times. She has taught at Northwestern University, The New School, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the Lede Program at Columbia University.

Jeremy C.F. Lin, Bloomberg

Jeremy is a graphics data journalist at Bloomberg News, where he focuses on visual storytelling, visualizations and maps. Previously, he worked at Politico and interned at The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Texas Tribune. He received his master’s degree from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. No, he has never played in the NBA.

Joanna S. Kao, Financial Times

Joanna is the tech lead of the Financial Times’ visual journalism team and holds a master’s degree from IE Business School and a computer science degree from MIT. Previously, she worked in the Financial Times’ New York bureau and Al Jazeera America. She also taught data visualization at Columbia Journalism School, as well as developed and taught two new accessibility courses for The New School and Parsons School of Design. She champions accessible design and enjoys theatre and crossword puzzles in her spare time. She enjoys living at the intersection of computer science, design and journalism.

Joel Eastwood, The Markup

Before joining The Markup, Joel was a graphics editor with The Wall Street Journal investigations team. Before that, Joel was a data journalist at the Toronto Star. His graphics were a part of the Journal’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. His work also has contributed to two Pulitzer Prize finalists, a Worth Bingham Prize entry, a Gerald Loeb finalist, a Data Visualization of the Year award and multiple awards from the Society for News Design.

Kaeti Hinck, CNN

Kaeti is a longtime visual journalist, editor and newsroom leader. Currently, she is the executive editor for data and visuals at CNN Digital, where she leads CNN’s global visual journalism teams. Before joining CNN, she was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, researching how neuroscience and psychology can inspire humane platform design and inform the broader news ecosystem. Previously, she was an editor at The Washington Post, where she led a Pulitzer-winning team of visual journalists, developers and data reporters. She has explored the power of data, visual storytelling and technology in newsrooms for almost two decades.

Lauren Tierney, The Washington Post

Lauren is a senior graphics reporter at The Washington Post, focusing on mapping, weather and natural disaster coverage. Before joining The Post in 2017, Lauren was a graphics editor at National Geographic Magazine. She has a master’s degree in geography from the University of Oregon. She is a cartographer who enjoys telling stories with maps and specializes in mapping environment, climate, wildlife and adventure topics.

Mara Corbett, The Marshall Project

Mara is a designer and project manager based out of Austin, Texas. She manages internal production processes and assists with media partnerships for The Marshall Project. Previously, she designed and managed special projects for Gannett’s 120-plus local markets and USA TODAY.

Matt Daniels, The Pudding

Matt Daniels is a journalist at The Pudding.

Matthew Weber, Reuters

Matthew is the global head of graphics for Reuters, where he manages a group of the most-talented, hardest-working and generally fabulous group of visual journalists in the biz. If you challenge him on that, he will probably start making charts to back it up. Under his leadership, the team has won hundreds of awards at SND, as well as Webbys, Sigmas, Loeb Awards, Sopas, LA and NY press club, Polks, OPC, Wan-Ifra, Information is Beautiful Awards and contributed to multiple Pulitzer wins. Previously, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, both in the graphics department and as an art director.

Michael Grant, Get Current Studio

Michael is the driving force behind Get Current Studio, where he is reimagining the way ethnic media publishers approach branding and digital transformation. With a keen eye for design principles and a deep appreciation of cultural nuances, Michael has gained recognition from industry leaders for his innovative work. As a former Google News Lab Teaching Fellow and John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, he is at the forefront of a movement that is empowering diverse voices to thrive in the digital age.

Sharon Denning, Dow Jones

For more than 25 years, Sharon has focused on connecting people to the information they need. Previously, she ran successful product and UX teams at Time, Gannett and The New York Public Library. Currently, as the SVP of Product and Customer Experiences for Dow Jones, Sharon ensures industry-leading product experiences are brought to market as she focuses on the needs of the customers for all Dow Jones brands, such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Factiva.

Sharon’s passion lies in building strong teams by driving internal collaboration and creating a framework for creativity and connectivity to deliver customer-focused outcomes that prioritize fostering an accessibility-first culture, ensuring everyone can access the information they need.

Sharon holds a master’s degree from the School of Visual Arts and sits on the board of the New York NeoFuturists, an organization dedicated to experimental theater. She currently resides in New York.

Suzette Moyer, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Suzette is the current design director at The Philadelphia Inquirer, a position she has held since 2022. She leads a team responsible for the visual presentation online, in print and on social platforms. Previously, she was a senior design editor at The Washington Post. Suzette co-directed the virtual reality film “12 seconds of gunfire: The true story of a school shooting” that debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019. She also has worked in newsrooms in Florida, Connecticut and Washington state, and has taught design classes around the country.

Alberto Lucas López, National Geographic

Alberto is senior artist, new narratives at National Geographic. His individual work has been recognized by more than 200 international awards from SND, Webby, SPD, WAN-IFRA, IIBA, DJA Global Editors Network and CaGIS, among other organizations. Other award highlights include Best of Show, Malofiej; two Human Rights awards, Malofiej; and the Impressive Individual Award from Information Is Beautiful Awards. Originally from Spain, Alberto is the former graphics director of Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, and a part of the yellow rectangle family since 2016. In recent years, he has spent his free time studying for a Ph.D. in art and education.

Alexandra Bowman, Whetstone

Alexandra is a painter, illustrator and designer based in Oakland. A graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Alexandra has illustrated several books, including “Well Read Black Girl,” “Little People, Big Dreams: Wilma Mankiller,” and “Bay Curious.” She has designed five volumes of the food and culture publication, Whetstone Magazine, as well as Allied Media Conference’s Recipes for Radical Hospitality. Her illustrative work has been published in numerous journals such as Smithsonian, The New York Times and NPR. She has designed and painted murals for Patagonia, Stanford University and The Barbican Museum in London, among others.

Andrea Levy, Editorial Artist

Andrea is an editorial artist whose work routinely explores a broad range of topic, style and commentary. Her often offbeat approach reveals an ease with both the sensitive and controversial, as well as the absurd and whimsical. Her professional honors encompass national and international recognition, including Best of Show for the Society for News Design, Scripps Howard Foundation (Finalist in Commentary), National Association of Black Journalist Awards, as well as a regional National Academy of Arts and Sciences Emmy Award.

Beto Alvarez, Los Angeles Times

Beto is a deputy news editor for the Los Angeles Times. Before that, he served as digital creative director at The San Diego Union-Tribune. Alvarez began his career at The Dallas Morning News, where he worked as a graphic artist and illustrator. He then spent eight years at The Philadelphia Inquirer as a graphic artist, illustrator and designer. He has been recognized with numerous awards from the Society for News Design, Society of Professional Journalism, PRINT magazine and Malofiej Awards for Infographics. Alvarez also is the recipient of four regional Emmy Awards. He was born and raised in Texas and currently lives in San Diego with his wife, Tiffany, two children and two yappy dogs. He also has played bass guitar in a bunch of rock-and-roll outfits and is a life-long skateboarding enthusiast.

Chrissy Dunleavy, TIME

Chrissy is design director of TIME. She is an award-winning visual journalist who is passionate about design, type and loves a great story. She oversees the design of the magazine and special issues, including TIME’s Person of the Year and the annual TIME 100. Before joining TIME, Chrissy was the art director and managing editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine. She started her career as a features page designer at The Asbury Park Press, where she won her first SND award.

Dian Holton, AARP

Dian is the art director of New York Times bestseller “Do The Work!” Dian is the senior deputy art director at AARP, where she oversees creative for TheGirlfriend.com, Sistersletter.com and The Ethel. She routinely contributes art direction and design to AARP The Magazine — specifically cover stories and entertainment-related content. Her background includes book design, branding, retail installation, styling and footwear design. Her passions include education, philanthropy, fashion and pop culture.

Hiram Henriquez, University of Miami

Hiram’s career includes 14 years at The Miami Herald, where he won multiple individual news illustration and design awards and earned two Pulitzer Prizes for team reporting. He spent three years at the South Florida Sun Sentinel as a senior graphics reporter and two years at National Geographic Magazine as a graphics editor. Hiram is now a full-time senior lecturer at the University of Miami School of Communication, teaching visual design and informational graphics. He also runs his own graphic design studio, H2H Graphics & Design, Inc., where he specializes in 3D illustrations, informational graphics, animation, brand identity and web design. In 2014, he received his master’s degree in graphic design from Savannah College of Art & Design. Hiram lives in Rolesville, North Carolina, a small town near Raleigh, with his wife, Kelly, sons Noah and Lucas, and their three dogs. Having been born in Cuba and raised in Miami, Hiram also is fluent in Spanish.

Joseph Hutchinson, Rolling Stone

Joseph is the creative director for Rolling Stone, where he oversees design and visuals for print, digital and the brand. Since 2007, Joseph has transformed the magazine’s design several times over and struck the balance between modernization and retaining Rolling Stone’s iconic heritage. In the summer of 2022, Joseph led a redesign of Rolling Stone’s website and oversaw a refresh of the legendary logo — the former of which is a medal finalist in this year’s prestigious Society of Publication Designers annual competition. Before joining Rolling Stone, Joseph served as creative director at the Los Angeles Times, turning it into one of the nation’s visual journalism powerhouses. Prior to The Times, he served as assistant managing editor for design and graphics at The Baltimore Sun, where under his leadership, the paper earned the “World’s Best-Designed Newspaper” award from the Society for News Design.

Junne Joaquin Alcantara, The Washington Post

Junne Joaquin is a design editor at The Washington Post in charge of the news development team. He started his career as a reporter for The Lafayette Daily Advertiser before leaving to become a designer for the Wilmington, Delaware, News-Journal. After stints in the Asbury Design Studio and The Arizona Republic, Junne Joaquin joined The Post in 2015 on the emerging news products team. In 2018, he joined the news design team before becoming a design editor in 2022.

Kim Maxwell Vu, The Star Tribune

Kim is a senior designer and art director at The Star Tribune in Minneapolis, where one of his main duties includes the visual presentation of Star Tribune Magazine. Previously, he has worked as a designer and art director for The Washington Post, Boston Globe and USA Today, winning a number of SND contest honors along the way. Kim is a 2005 graduate of the Ball State University School of Journalism, and in 2015, he received the department’s Young Alumnus Award. He currently resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with his wife, daughter and doggo.

Koos Jeremiasse, de Volkskrant

Koos has worked for several media companies and has always felt at home in organizations where journalism and news design come together. Currently, he is the art director of Dutch daily de Volkskrant and leads the team of designers, creating the daily news pages and weekly supplements. He is closely involved in the digital ambitions of de Volkskrant. He has a passion for illustrations and through his work he regularly guides illustrators — from briefing to final result. He is always looking for the best match both nationally and internationally. Industry recognition of his team’s work includes the design award “European Newspaper of the Year.” In 2021, de Volkskrant was named “World’s Best Designed Newspaper” by the Society for News Design.

Linda Tran Tutovan, Barron’s Advisor

Linda is a visual designer creating digital-first for the online media industry. Previous adventures in print and digital include ESPN, Forbes, Sport Illustrated and TIME. A designer.
A karate instructor. Love of family, design, MMA and nice humans.

Liz Hart, The Atlantic

Liz is a designer and art director in New York. She is currently art directing at The Atlantic, where she works on the print magazine and designs experimental storytelling projects for online. Prior to The Atlantic, she was an art director at The Washington Post.

Luis N. Solano Ortega, Gannett

Luis is a senior designer at Gannett Design Center with more than 18 years of experience in the newspaper business. He started his editorial design career in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, with EL IMPARCIAL. In 2004, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona, working as an editorial designer with LA VOZ Arizona, a bi-weekly Spanish publication, where he held different roles as lead designer and art director. In 2015, he joined Gannett Design Center as lead designer working with news, opinion and 1A Sunday covers and digital projects. His editorial design has been recognized with an award of excellence from the Society for News Design and multiple state awards.

Maggie Murphy, The Guardian

Maggie joined The Guardian as a designer in 1998 after working for publications, including Vogue and The Sunday Times. In 2001, she became art director of Weekend, the newspaper’s Saturday magazine supplement. Since then, her work has been recognized multiple times by awards bodies, including the Society for News Design. In 2018, she was named art director of the Year by The British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME). In 2021, Maggie was tasked with launching Saturday, a new magazine combining all of The Guardian’s weekend products. The magazine combines long-form journalism and interviews alongside unrivalled culture, books, travel and lifestyle coverage. As art director of Saturday, Maggie’s goal is to work with a diverse, upcoming and eclectic range of artists, illustrators and photographers and to create a space in print to be bold and visually ambitious. The success of the launch was recognized by awards from the BSME and was named supplement of the year at The British Press Awards.

Martina Ibáñez-Baldor, Los Angeles Times

Martina is design director for Latino initiatives at the Los Angeles Times, a new vertical that will explore Latino culture and identity. She also serves as art director for @latimesplants and the Latinx Files newsletter. Since joining the Times in 2015, she has worked across sections including A1, California, business, op-ed and various features sections and magazines. She was the art director for the food section from 2019-2021. Previously, she worked for The Minneapolis Star Tribune and Milwaukee Magazine. She has a degree in journalism and Spanish from Marquette University. 

Mary Jane Callister, The New York Times

Mary Jane is the deputy design director of features for The New York Times, where she leads culture and lifestyle special print sections. Originally from Salt Lake City, she moved to New York to work for Louise Fili, the award-winning creative director known for her exquisite typography. Mary Jane has spent her career focusing on editorial design, working as an art director at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and then designing illustrated books for publishers, such as Abrams, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Knopf and Clarkson Potter. “I’ve always loved creating a visual narrative through the pairing of type and image. And I’ve found that helping someone better understand information through the thoughtful use of typography is really gratifying,” she says.

Meredith Sheffer, American City Business Journals

Meredith is a Senior Designer at American City Business Journals where she currently designs the Memphis, Albuquerque and San Francisco Business Journals. Before coming to ACBJ, she was the Assistant Sports Editor for Presentation at The State Newspaper in Columbia, SC. After graduating from Indiana University, Meredith worked as a high school journalism teacher, so she knows a bit about teen angst and the motivational power of a pizza party. Meredith lives with her husband, eight-year-old twins and officemate/Golden Retriever, Townes, in San Antonio, where they eat a lot of al pastor tacos.

Mie Brinkmann, Weekendavisen

Mie is the visual editor of the Danish weekly Weekendavisen, where she leads a team of designers and art directors overseeing four feature sections. In 2020, Weekendavisen was awarded World’s Best Designed Newspaper along with de Volkskrant by the Society for News Design. Based in Copenhagen, she has previously worked at Zetland and Politiken. Mie is a part of the program committee at the Copenhagen Photo Festival and external examiner at the Danish School of Media and Journalism.

Molly Bedford, The New York Times

Molly is an art director at The New York Times, where she is in charge of the visual direction of the business section. She also art directs special reports for The Times. Molly grew up in the rural coastal town of Tillamook, Oregon, and graduated from the University of Oregon. Previously, Molly was the adviser to the student newspaper at Fordham University, and an adjunct instructor from 2016-2022. Before The New York Times, she was an editor at the Los Angeles Times and the Naples Daily News in Florida, and had a stint in Ghana for the Crusading Guide. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband, 5-month old son and dog, Picasso.

Omar Nashashibi, Arab News

Omar is the head of design at Arab News and has a passion for designs that dare to be simple and bold. He joined Saudi Arabia’s leading English-language daily newspaper in 2017, going on to design and direct award-winning print and digital work, which has received accolades from prestigious institutions such as the Society for News Design, The Society of Publication Designers and European Newspaper Awards.

Omar Vega, The Boston Globe

Omar is a designer, art director, illustrator and graphic artist. An 8-year veteran of The Boston Globe visuals team, he has won awards from the Society for News Design, Communication Arts and New York Publishers Association. Previously, Omar was at The Wall Street Journal Asia and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Stephanie Swearngin, Crain’s Chicago Business

Stephanie is a senior digital news designer at Crain’s Chicago Business, where she designs digital story presentations, interactive graphics and landing pages. She is an award-winning designer based in Colorado who has worked in newsrooms for more than 20 years. Stephanie has designed front pages and news sections for the Houston Chronicle, the San Antonio Express-News, the Tampa Bay Times and The Colorado Springs Gazette.

Thomas Weyres, Tagesspiegel

Thomas is design director and leading the visual department of Berlin’s largest newspaper, Tagesspiegel. As a product designer, he worked on many digital publishing apps and websites in Germany. As a freelancer, he is a senior designer at Garcia Media, Inc., New York and works with Dr. Mario García for clients worldwide. He is a father of three daughters and lives in East Berlin. 

Tim Ball, Politico Europe

Tim (he/they) is Politico Europe’s art director/print, responsible for the look and feel of the weekly newspaper and the visuals commissioned for it. Prior to transitioning into this part-time role, he was Politico Europe’s founding creative director, joining the publication shortly after its launch in 2015 and overseeing art direction, design and photography on all platforms for its newsroom in Brussels. Previously, he was visuals editor for the Bay Area News Group in California, art director at The Washington Post and has worked as a design consultant and in various roles in newsrooms large and small across the U.S., including the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the Indianapolis Star and the San Antonio Express-News.

Tom Fox, The Houston Chronicle

Tom is the lead sports designer at the Houston Chronicle, where he designs, edits and contributes to the overall presentation of the newspaper. After 14 years as a sports writer and sports editor at newspapers in the Northwest, Fox has been in charge of the visual display of sports sections in Colorado Springs, Louisville and Houston. His work has received several Society for News Design honors, including gold and silver medals in 2021, and an award of excellence for individual portfolio in 2022.

Tonia Cowan, The Wall Street Journal

Tonia is the director of graphics for The Wall Street Journal, where she oversees infographics and multimedia storytelling. An infographic design veteran and an exhibiting painter, Tonia has previously worked for The Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Newsweek, Associated Press and Canadian Press.