Joanna S. Kao

Joanna S. Kao is the tech lead of the Financial Times' visual and data journalism team and holds a computer science degree from MIT and an MBA from IE Business School.

She previously 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.

Kao champions accessible design, and she enjoys living at the intersection of computer science, design, and journalism.