Lam Thuy Vo

2022 AI ACCOUNTABILITY FELLOW

Lam Thuy Vo is a journalist who marries data analysis with on-the-ground reporting to examine how systems and policies affect individuals. She is currently an investigative reporter working with Documented, an independent, non-profit newsroom dedicated to reporting with and for immigrant communities, and an associate professor of data journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, she was a journalist at The Markup, BuzzFeed News, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America and NPR's Planet Money.

She has also worked as an educator, scholar, and public speaker for a decade, developing newsroom-wide training programs for institutions including Al Jazeera America and The Wall Street Journal; workshops for journalists across the U.S. as well as from Asia, Latin America, and Europe; and semester-long courses for the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. 

She's brought her research about misinformation and the impact of algorithms on our political views to Harvard, Georgetown, MIT, Columbia, Data & Society, and other institutions. In 2019, she published a book about her empirical approach to finding stories in data from the Internet for No Starch Press.

Lam Thuy Vo