Self-employed

Data journalism and data-driven storytelling across technology, news, design, and venture capital, with a focus on analysis, visualization, and narrative clarity.

Currently: Establishing a new data storytelling practice for award-winning design agency The DataFace.

• • Launched, wrote and shaped a newsletter product for Lettuce, a tech startup, defining editorial strategy, data framing, and audience positioning. Tripled their clickthrough rate in three months.
• • Established the data storytelling practice at Jerry, an insurance tech startup — Led special data-driven storytelling projects including writing white papers, consumer polling, developing public-facing useful tools and producing data-driven analyses and studies that inform audiences about the costs, policies, and realities of rising car ownership. Built the Jerry car tariff price estimator and Jerry car insurance premium index. Piloted large-scale scraping of insurance filings from SERFF and developed methods to parse millions of PDFs using Agentic LLMs.
• • Edited and advised on a series of articles examining AI use cases and implications for a major consulting firm.
• • Analyzed proprietary data and authored a data-driven AI report for a venture capital firm, supporting investment and strategic insights.
• • Conducted data analysis and produced narrative-driven stories for a design firm and its Fortune 500 clients, translating complex findings into clear, compelling storytelling.

Senior Data Reporter

• • Conducted large-scale analyses of financial, environmental, and immigration datasets using Python and SQL.
• • Analyzed opaque water ownership in California and Australia and recognized as a Pulitzer finalist; findings were cited by the California Senate and Australian Parliament.
• • Built custom databases on microfinance flows, analysis recognized as a Loeb Award honoree.
• • Analyzed millions of immigration court records to expose disparities in asylum outcomes; awarded the New York Press Club Award.
• • Delivered findings through data visualizations and Bloomberg TV appearances.

Data & Interactives Editor

• • Directed newsroom-wide data strategy and built infrastructure for statistical and survey analysis.
• • Produced interactive visual stories on immigration, housing, and education policy.
• • Reporting on H-1B visas received a national award from the Asian American Journalists Association.

Google Fellow & Data Reporter

• • Conducted demographic analysis of Silicon Valley's workforce diversity; findings were cited by 30+ academic studies and contributed to a Department of Labor policy change.
• • Produced multi-format outputs, including a white paper and a data-driven art installation with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
• • Work recognized with Edward R. Murrow Award.

M.A., Journalism

University of Southern California, 2015

PG Diploma, Communications

MICA India, 2008

B.E., Computer Engineering

Mumbai University, 2006