Danielle Alberti

I’m the managing editor of data visualization at Axios, where I’ve built and led the data viz team since 2019. Before that, I spent five years as a front-end developer at the Pew Research Center, making interactive visuals and data-driven stories.

Most of my job now is helping other people do their best work. That means editing, but it also means setting strategy, shaping standards, building workflows and tooling, and creating an environment where people feel safe to try something weird and see if it lands. I’ve built teams and systems that support both rapid-turnaround work and longer-term data initiatives.

My work sits at the intersection of data, design and engineering. I care about making work that doesn’t talk down to people, and building teams that don’t either.

Outside of work, I like to spend my time quilting and bird watching. Quilting scratches the same itch as data viz: precision, color, pattern, laboriously turning little squares into something beautiful. Birding is just pure joy.