'I want you to glance at the chart and, even without reading it, have some sense of the subject in order to make it memorable.'
“THERE WERE NO other Arabs where I grew up, which contributed to me always feeling like an outsider,” recalls Iraqi-British artist and data journalist Mona Chalabi of her childhood in East London.
ADVERTISEMENT This outsider perspective has always informed the 32-year-old’s career trajectory, a course that is refreshingly self-defined and self-aware. After earning her master’s in International Security from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, Chalabi worked for the Bank of England and the United Nations. Then, in 2014, Chalabi moved to New York to write for Nate Silver’s website, FiveThirtyEight.
When her data journalism illustrations started going viral on Instagram in 2017—including one depicting the gender and race pay gaps with folded dollar bills and another that turns the American Flag into a bar graph with each stripe, representing the U.S. population, getting shorter as immigrants, people of color, or women are removed—Chalabi discovered a new career in visual art.
I took a job for FiveThirtyEight and realized very early on that I hated it. It was elitist and, to a certain extent, divorced from reality. In that field you get respect for being super intelligent even if the way that you are depicting things alienates other people. I became disillusioned. I knew that I wasn’t going to fit in. I wasn’t going to earn their respect because the way I approach journalism and data is too inclusive.
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