Biography

Lam Thuy Vo is a journalist currently working as a senior data reporter at BuzzFeed News where she reports on stories about the intersection of technology and society. Previously, she's led teams and reported for The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America and NPR's Planet Money and told economic stories across the U.S. and throughout Asia through articles, videos and graphics.

She has also worked as an educator for a decade, developing newsroom-wide training programs, workshops of varying lengths for journalists in the U.S., Asia and Europe and semester-long courses. She’s taught for ICFJ, Open Society, ONA, NICAR, CUNY and Columbia University, and has given talks, spoken on panels, and told on-stage stories for Pop-Up Magazine, the Tribeca Film Festival’s Interactive Day, TedxNYC and other larger events and conferences.