Jasmine Mithani

Jasmine Mithani is a journalist focused on making complex ideas accessible to everyone. She has worked as a visual journalist, game developer, civic tech software consultant, alt-weekly editor and user experience designer. Her experience in journalism spans outlets national to hyper-local, including FiveThirtyEight, National Public Radio, and South Side Weekly. She is currently a tech and data reporter at The 19th, an independent nonprofit newsroom examining the intersection of gender, politics and policy. Much of her work revolves around core themes of information access, tech-facilitated harms and privacy. Her reporting frequently centers LGBTQ+ perspectives and intersects with reproductive rights. She contributed to The 19th’s 2023 Online Journalism Award-winning coverage of the Dobbs decision, and her visualizations have been long- and short-listed for Information Is Beautiful Awards. Jasmine routinely speaks about best practices in journalism around reporting on mixed-race people, working with data on LGTBQ+ populations and creating accessible data visualizations. She also writes the newsletter Data + Feelings about being data and being human.