Mona Chalabi is an award-winning writer and illustrator. Using words, color and sound, Mona rehumanizes data to help us understand our world and the way we live in it.

Mona once worked directly with the type of data that dictates so much in our lives in both the private and nonprofit industry before crafting her own approach in journalism. Over the past decade she has researched genetics, police violence, viral transmission, the cost of dying and so, so much more (including average testicle size).

Using bold colorful drawings, viewers are invited to think about the limits and possibilities of what we can and cannot know. By rehumanizing data that feels distant and resensitizing us to data that feels close, Mona provides you with a vocabulary to express that thing you’re experiencing while also letting you know you’re not alone. Hopefully, that’s an empowering thing.

Mona works beside windows, sometimes in her hometown, London but usually in Brooklyn where she is writing a book about the ways we talk about money. She is also the executive producer and creative director of an upcoming animated TV show with Ramy Youssef, A24, and Amazon Studios.

Her writing and illustrations have been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Guardian, where she is currently the data editor. Her video, audio, and production work has been featured on Netflix, NPR, the BBC, and National Geographic.

Her work has earned her a Pulitzer Prize, a fellowship at the British Science Association, an Emmy nomination, and recognition from the Royal Statistical Society. In recent years, her art has been exhibited at the Tate, the Brooklyn Museum, the Design Museum, and the House of Illustration. She studied international relations in Paris and Arabic in Jordan.