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Swetha Kannan is a former graphics and data journalist at the Los Angeles Times. In 2020 she was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in explanatory reporting alongside colleagues Rosanna Xia and Terry Castleman for a two-part series examining the difficult situation California faces in preserving its coastlines amid rising sea levels. She specializes in animation technology and is always looking to apply her skills in new and engaging ways. Kannan graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA in fine arts and minors in animation and game design. She grew up in New Jersey and gladly escaped the cold weather to settle in Los Angeles.

Former graphics and data journalist Jon Schleuss left the Los Angeles Times in December 2019 when he was elected president of the NewsGuild, which represents about 20,000 journalists and other workers in the United States and Canada. Schleuss previously taught journalism students how to code at the University of Southern California. An Arkansas native, he graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2013.