Hi! I'm Tejal.

(she/her)

I create products for the newsroom at The Baltimore Banner. I also tell stories using words and code as a data & graphics journalist trained at Columbia Journalism School.

Previously, I built platforms to make trading easier at Goldman Sachs. There, I found my interest shifting away from using data for business towards using it to empower impactful storytelling. My focus lies at the intersection of journalism, design, and technology – which involves anything from reporting visual stories to creating data-driven graphics and building containers for these pieces that help shape reader perception.

I studied computer science at BITS Pilani, where I served as Editor for our university magazine. I pursued my undergraduate thesis in political news visualization (and got involved in community-centered design) at the MIT Media Lab. Here is an interview on my experience.

My inbox is always open for freelance work. Please book a time if you'd like to chat! I speak three human and five beep-boop languages, and when I'm not coding up random stuff, I: