LA Times Festival of Books 2019

Ben Welsh is the editor of the Data Desk, a team of reporters and computer programmers in the newsroom that works to collect, organize, analyze and present large amounts of information. Projects that he has contributed to have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Library of Congress... Read More →

Sonali Kohli is a reporter covering education for the Los Angeles Times. A product of Southern California, she grew up in Diamond Bar and graduated from UCLA. She worked as a metro reporter for the Orange County Register and as a reporter covering education and diversity for Quartz... Read More →

Iris Lee is a Metpro trainee and data journalist at the Los Angeles Times Data Desk. She previously reported for the San Fernando Valley Business Journal, covering healthcare and law. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a master's in journalism and holds... Read More →

Priya Krishnakumar is a graphics and data journalist at the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she has worked at the Washington Post, Patch Media and Northwestern University's Knight Lab. She's a Northern California native and graduated from Northwestern University in 2014 with a degree... Read More →