Teo Popescu

Teo is the KUOW newsroom's design, graphics, and data editor. She manages all data visualizations, graphics, illustrations, and news video stories for kuow.org and Instagram. She also leads design and development for KUOW’s interactive feature stories, specializing in visualizing complex bureaucratic processes and budgets. She co-hosts Control F with Clare McGrane.

Teo came to KUOW in 2018 as the first in-house design lead at the station. She created the newsroom's graphics standards and style. In a previous era, she was a state political correspondent for PubliCola and the print editor of Nightingale, the magazine of the Data Visualization Society. Her work has appeared on PubliCola, KUOW, ProPublica, NPR, and the HBO show Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas. Outside of work, Teo likes spending time teaching graphic journalism courses at the University of Washington and UC Berkeley, or making mediocre furniture — the latter is still a work in progress.

Location: Seattle

Languages: English, Romanian

Pronouns: she/her

Professional Associations: Board Member, Society of Professional Journalists of Western Washington; Editor, Data Visualization Society