Erin Kissane

Erin Kissane has been writing, editing bodies of knowledge, and nurturing communities online for 20 years. In early 2020, she co-founded and co-led the COVID Tracking Project (COVID-19) at The Atlantic, a crisis public health data project that organized the efforts of hundreds of volunteers to assemble the cleanest, most thorough, and most accessible dataset on the pandemic in the United States. Before that, she built inter-organizational connections and connections between newsroom technology, design, and data teams for OpenNews, an organization launched from the Knight Foundation and Mozilla Foundation. https://erinkissane.com/