Kavya Sukumar is an editorial engineer on Vox's visualization team. She works with data and graphics to find and present stories on the internet. 
After more than six years in the tech industry, she switched careers to journalism. She has reported and written stories, worked on investigative projects, made data visualizations, built tools and rewritten parts of a CMS. She started her newsroom career as a Data Editor with the investigative team at the Palm Beach Post. Before joining Vox Media full time, she was an OpenNews fellow embedded with Vox Media's Storytelling Studio. She now lives in Seattle and works remotely.