Rani is a multimedia journalist and an editorial producer at GigaOM. She recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School, where she specialized in data visualization and digital media. Before heading to the big city, Rani worked for three years in the high desert as a copy editor and culture editor at the Santa Fe Reporter. Before that she served as editor in chief of her Midwest alma mater's newspaper, The Oberlin Review. She's originally from Long Island. These days she lives in Brooklyn, where she makes graphs, tells stories and talks to strangers. She writes mostly about technology, data visualization and media.