Jason Das
Part-Time Faculty
Email
dasj@newschool.edu
Office Location
A - Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th Street
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Jason Das has taught in the Journalism + Design department of the New School since 2017. He has worked as a web designer and/or developer for many publications including The Atlantic, The Nation, n+1, Narratively, Guernica, National Geographic, and Teen Vogue. For many years, he was a regular stringer for ProPublica on News Applications, design, and engagement projects. He was design consultant for two Knight Foundation-backed tools for journalists: Tabula and Dataproofer. He acted as coach/mentor for a student-led relaunch of the Yale Daily News website. He is a founding board member of Urban Sketchers, an international nonprofit dedicated to raising the artistic, storytelling and educational value of location drawing. He is also an interdisciplinary artist and performer, and teaches drawing, painting, and comics/visual narrative.