Kae Petrin
Data & Graphics Reporter On Sabbatical
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKae Petrin is a data journalist and graphics storyteller with nine years of experience turning public records and complex datasets into accessible investigative reporting and interactive newsroom tools. Currently on sabbatical as a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow and data & graphics reporter for Civic News Company, Kae builds data visualizations, web apps, and trains reporters across statewide newsrooms on best practices in data reporting. They co-founded and helped raise $1 million for the Trans Journalists Association, where they authored style and employer-guidance resources to improve media coverage and workplace inclusion for trans journalists. Technically fluent in Python, SQL/PostgreSQL, PostGIS, D3, Datawrapper and scraping/PDF processing, Kae blends front-end storytelling with back-end data engineering to produce accountability journalism on education, health, and voting. Notably, their background spans both corporate healthcare analytics and grassroots investigative projects, bringing rigor and product-minded discipline to editorial workflows.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Special Major in Medical Humanities (history concentration); Minor in Writing & Classics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Special Major in Medical Humanities (history concentration); Minor in Writing & Classics at Washington University in St. LouisLC101, Java Track, LC101, Java Track at LaunchCode
Latin
Github Skills (16)
altair9
jupyter-notebook9
data-journalism9
backup8
sphinx8
jupyter8
tumblr8
python8
jupyterlab8
graphic7
data-analysis7
pandas7
data-visualizations6
journalism6
iframe4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
transja/styleguide.transjournalists.org
Aug 2023 - Oct 2025
Contributions:6 PRs, 43 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
petrinkae/petrinkae.github.io
Mar 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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