Tran briefed National Press Foundation fellows in January 2022: Putting the Count in Accountability.

Andrew Ba Tran is an investigative data reporter for The Washington Post’s rapid response team, where he has analyzed how COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted certain communities, the spread of opioids across the country and the rise of right-wing violence.

He shared the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2018. Tran previously worked as a data editor at The Connecticut Mirror’s TrendCT.org and as a data producer at The Boston Globe. He has also worked in newsrooms at The Virginian-Pilot and the Sun-Sentinel.

Tran has taught data journalism as a Koeppel Fellow at Wesleyan University and as an adjunct professor at American University and is an advocate for open data and reproducible research.

He was a Metpro Fellow and a Chips Quinn Scholar and is a graduate of the University of Texas.