Personal Bio/Contributor Statement – Joanne

Joanne Ramadani is a Brooklyn-based information designer, data analyst, and web developer. She is currently a candidate for a Master’s degree in Data Analytics & Visualization at the CUNY Graduate Center. Having graduated from Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College in 2017 with a Bachelor’s degree in English and Political Science, which trained her attention to detail and developed her logic skills, she now uses those skills to build websites, scrutinize data, and create fun visualizations that seek to figure out the best way to deliver information to as many people as possible.

As a member of the research, design, and development teams on Freedom of Speech*, Joanne’s responsibilities include cleaning and processing legal data, providing assistance and ideating visualizations on the design end, and co-building the code structure of the website, including the technical aspect of visualizing content. She is also partially responsible for outreach in tandem with the rest of the core team.