Aleszu Bajak is a science and data journalist, former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at M.I.T. and Science Friday radio producer who has been a freelance reporter in Latin America and once upon a time worked in the gene therapy department at Weill Cornell. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe magazine, M.I.T. Technology Review, OjoPúblico, The Huffington Post, Esquire, Nature, Science, and Guernica. He founded and edited Storybench, a publication hosted by Northeastern’s School of Journalism that explores the future of digital storytelling and data journalism. He also served as innovation lead at the Co-Laboratory for Data Impact within Northeastern while teaching courses in journalism, coding and data visualization.