Aleszu Bajak is senior writer for the Cross Sections blog and a freelance journalist covering science across the Americas for outlets like The Washington Post, Nature and Science. He also teaches journalism, design, data visualization and programming at Northeastern University and Brandeis University, and is the editor of Storybench.org — an under-the-hood guide to digital storytelling — and LatinAmericanScience.org, a resource for science news and opinion out of Latin America. In 2013, he was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at M.I.T. where he explored the interface between journalists, designers and developers between visits to the Muddy Charles.