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.