She is currently an assistant professor of journalism at Columbia University and assistant director of the Tow Center of Digital Journalism. From 2007 to 2011, she was a senior programmer for online news graphics at the Wall Street Journal Online, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for her work on WSJ's "What They Know" series. She has developed a mobile app (Dispatch) for secure source communication and a platform (DataDocs) for creating interactive web videos. She holds a master's degree in educational technology from New York University.