Joanna S. Kao
SENIOR EDITOR, AI
Joanna S. Kao leads the Pulitzer Center's AI Accountability Network, where she oversees a portfolio of AI and machine-learning reporting projects and aims to foster a growing, global community of journalists doing AI-related reporting.
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.
In 2023, she was named a Pulitzer Center AI Accountability Fellow, reporting on how artificial intelligence has helped and hurt disabled people.
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.
Kao holds a computer science degree from MIT and a master of business administration from IE Business School.
She champions accessible design and enjoys living at the intersection of computer science, design, and journalism.
